ABSTRACT
Yoga of the yogins of nineteenth-century India was associated with other traditions, especially Hathayoga, which in the nineteenth century was associated especially with the Nath yogins. Wherever Hariharananda Aranya and disciples of Kapil Math established asramas, they were named after Kapila. The Kapila who is associated with the foundation of the Samkhya system of religious thought can be identified as the mythological teacher of Asuri and thus the originator of a separate parampara. A lack of pandits interested in Samkhya in Bengal in the first half of the nineteenth century indicates the novelty of the elevation of Kapila as "the world's first philosopher". It is well known that there was an absence of pandits interested in Samkhyayoga in nineteenth-century Bengal and India. The situation appears to have been somewhat similar for Samkhya and Yoga in the early nineteenth century in that hardly any pandits had specialist knowledge of the philosophical systems.
