ABSTRACT

Describing one of the most important practices of hathayoga (khecarimudra), the Khecarividya of Adinatha is presented here to an English-speaking readership for the first time. The author, James Mallinson, draws on thirty Sanskrit works, as well as original fieldwork amongst yogins in India who use the practice, to demonstrate how earlier tantric yogic techniques developed and mutated into the practices of hathayoga. Accompanied by an introduction and an extensively annotated translation, the work sheds light on the development of hathayoga and its practices.

part |64 pages

Introduction

chapter |14 pages

The Khecarīvidyā

chapter |17 pages

The haṭhayogic khecarīmudrā

chapter |27 pages

Sources

chapter |3 pages

Conventions in the apparatus

part |49 pages

खेचरीविद्या

part |22 pages

The Khecarīvidyā An annotated translation

chapter I|5 pages

Chapter I

chapter II|7 pages

Chapter II

chapter III|4 pages

Chapter III

chapter IV|2 pages

Chapter IV