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It is one of the first texts to name 84 <a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a>, earlier texts having claimed as many without naming them. It describes 36 asanas. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Text">Text</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ha%E1%B9%ADha_Ratn%C4%81val%C4%AB&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Text"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Haṭha Ratnāvalī</i> is a <a href="/wiki/Ha%E1%B9%ADha_yoga" class="mw-redirect" title="Haṭha yoga">Haṭha yoga</a> text written in the 17th century by Srinivasa.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESrinivasa2003_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESrinivasa2003-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It states (1.17-18) that <a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pranayama" title="Pranayama">breath retentions</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Yogic_seal" class="mw-redirect" title="Yogic seal">seals</a> assist in Haṭha yoga.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201729_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201729-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It mentions 8 purifications (<a href="/wiki/Shatkarma" title="Shatkarma">shatkarmas</a>), criticising the <i><a href="/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika" title="Hatha Yoga Pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a></i> for only describing 6 of these.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201777–79_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201777–79-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It is one of the earliest texts (the other being the unpublished <i><a href="/wiki/Yogacint%C4%81ma%E1%B9%87i" class="mw-redirect" title="Yogacintāmaṇi">Yogacintāmaṇi</a></i>) actually to name 84 asanas,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201791_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201791-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> earlier manuscripts having simply claimed that 84<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 8,400,000 asanas existed.<sup id="cite_ref-EastBombay1988_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EastBombay1988-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 84 <a href="/wiki/Asana" title="Asana">asanas</a> listed (HR 3.7-20<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton2017116–119_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton2017116–119-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) include several variations of Padmasana and Mayurasana, <a href="/wiki/Gomukhasana" title="Gomukhasana">Gomukhasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bhairavasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhairavasana">Bhairavasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Matsyendrasana" title="Matsyendrasana">Matsyendrasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kurmasana" title="Kurmasana">Kurmasana</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kraunchasana" title="Kraunchasana">Kraunchasana</a>, Mandukasana, <a href="/wiki/Yoganidrasana" title="Yoganidrasana">Yoganidrasana</a>, and many names now not in wide usage; it provides descriptions of 36 of these asanas.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201791,_116–119_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMallinsonSingleton201791,_116–119-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ha%E1%B9%ADha_Ratn%C4%81val%C4%AB&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Notes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Almost Everything You Need to Know about Yoga-from Asanas to Yamas</i></a>. Shambhala. pp. 171–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8348-4057-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8348-4057-7"><bdi>978-0-8348-4057-7</bdi></a>. <q>this number has symbolic significance. S. Dasgupta, in <i>Obscure Religious Cults</i> (1946), cites numerous instances of variations on eighty-four in Indian literature that stress its 'purely mystical nature'; ... Gudrun Buhnemann, in her comprehensive <i>Eighty-Four Asanas in Yoga</i>, notes that the number 'signifies completeness, and in some cases, sacredness. ... John Campbell Oman, in <i>The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India (1905) ... seven ... classical planets in Indian astrology ... and twelve, the number of signs of the zodiac. ... 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title="Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa">Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Gorakhnath" title="Gorakhnath">Goraksha Sataka</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gomukhasana" title="Gomukhasana">Gomukhasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muktasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Muktasana">Muktasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lotus_position" title="Lotus position">Padmasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siddhasana" title="Siddhasana">Siddhasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Simhasana" title="Simhasana">Simhasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sopasrayasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sopasrayasana">Sopasrayasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sukhasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Sukhasana">Sukhasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svastikasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Svastikasana">Svastikasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Virasana" title="Virasana">Virasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>Ancient non-meditation <i><a href="/wiki/Ahirbudhnya_Sa%E1%B9%83hit%C4%81" class="mw-redirect" title="Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitā">Ahirbudhnya Saṃhitā</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/P%C4%81ta%C3%B1jalayoga%C5%9B%C4%81stravivara%E1%B9%87a" class="mw-redirect" title="Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa">Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dandasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Dandasana">Dandasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kurmasana" title="Kurmasana">Kurmasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>c. 7th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Ahirbudhnya_Samhita" title="Ahirbudhnya Samhita">Ahirbudhnya Samhita</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kukkutasana" title="Kukkutasana">Kukkutasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>c. 10th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Vimanarcanakalpa" title="Vimanarcanakalpa">Vimanarcanakalpa</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mayurasana" title="Mayurasana">Mayurasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>c. 11th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Amritasiddhi" title="Amritasiddhi">Amritasiddhi</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Hemacandra" class="mw-redirect" title="Hemacandra">Hemachandra's <i>Yogashastra</i></a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Muktasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Muktasana">Muktasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirshasana" title="Shirshasana">Shirshasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>12th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Amaraugha" title="Amaraugha">Amaraugha</a></i></li></ul> <ul><li>13th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Dattatreya_Yoga_Shastra" class="mw-redirect" title="Dattatreya Yoga Shastra">Dattatreya Yoga Shastra</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Goraksha_Shataka" title="Goraksha Shataka">Goraksha Shataka</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vasishtha_Samhita" title="Vasishtha Samhita">Vasishtha Samhita</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Vivekam%C4%81rta%E1%B9%87%E1%B8%8Da" title="Vivekamārtaṇḍa">Vivekamārtaṇḍa</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Viparita_Karani" title="Viparita Karani">Viparita Karani</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>14th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Khecar%C4%ABvidy%C4%81" class="mw-redirect" title="Khecarīvidyā">Khecarīvidyā</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Shiva_Samhita" title="Shiva Samhita">Shiva Samhita</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Sharngadhara-paddhati" title="Sharngadhara-paddhati">Sharngadhara-paddhati</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Yogab%C4%ABja" title="Yogabīja">Yogabīja</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Yogat%C4%81r%C4%81val%C4%AB" title="Yogatārāvalī">Yogatārāvalī</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gorakshasana" title="Gorakshasana">Gorakshasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paschimottanasana" title="Paschimottanasana">Paschimottanasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>15th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Hatha_Yoga_Pradipika" title="Hatha Yoga Pradipika">Hatha Yoga Pradipika</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baddha_Konasana" title="Baddha Konasana">Baddha Konasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dhanurasana" title="Dhanurasana">Dhanurasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matsyendrasana" title="Matsyendrasana">Matsyendrasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Utkatasana" title="Utkatasana">Utkatasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>17th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Gheranda_Samhita" title="Gheranda Samhita">Gheranda Samhita</a></i>, <i><a 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href="/wiki/Ha%E1%B9%ADh%C4%81bhy%C4%81sapaddhati" title="Haṭhābhyāsapaddhati">Hathabhyasa-paddhati</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Joga_Prad%C4%ABpik%C4%81" title="Joga Pradīpikā">Joga Pradipika</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Handstand" title="Handstand">Adho Mukha Vrikshasana</a></li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>19th C. <i><a href="/wiki/Sritattvanidhi" title="Sritattvanidhi">Sritattvanidhi</a></i> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Akarna_Dhanurasana" title="Akarna Dhanurasana">Akarna Dhanurasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bhairavasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Bhairavasana">Bhairavasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Durvasasana" title="Durvasasana">Durvasasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Garudasana" title="Garudasana">Garudasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Halasana" title="Halasana">Halasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Navasana" title="Navasana">Navasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pashasana" class="mw-redirect" title="Pashasana">Pashasana</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Setu_Bandha_Sarvangasana" 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