The Yoga-System of Patanjali (or the Ancient Hindu Doctrine of Concentration of Mind)
Contributors: James Haughton Woods (Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass,India
Published: February 5, 1998
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9788120805774
Subjects: Hinduism; Oriental & Indian philosophy
First sentence: May he, who, having abandoned his primal form, exercises his power to show kindness to the world in many ways-he with the beautiful hood and many mouths, possessed of deadly poison and yet abolishing the mass of hindrances-he the source of all knowledge, and whose girdle of attendant snakes produces continual pleasure,-may he, the divine Lord of Serpents, protect you, with his white stainless body-he, the giver of concentration (yoga), and himself concentrated in concentration.