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You often find greater details in some of the Persian
texts on yoga than in Sanskrit. In fact, the first illustrated
manuscript on yoga, Bahr al-Hyat (Ocean of Life), was commissioned by
Prince Salim, later Emperor Jahangir. - James Mallinson, co-author of Roots of Yoga |
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Believed to have been written, or at any rate completed, about the 9th
century AD, the Agni Purana devotes a separate section to the use of the
body and limbs in dancing and acting. Much of what it says in this
regard is freely borrowed from two earlier classical works in the field -
the Natya Shastra and the Dasarupaka. ('Traditions of Indian Classical dance,' Mohan Khokar, 1979, Chapter 'Down the centuries') |
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