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Yogi seated in the humped tortoise position (uttanakurmasana) (recto), and yogi seated in the sunasana position (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Title	Yogi seated in the humped tortoise position (uttanakurmasana) (recto), and yogi seated in the sunasana position (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)
Publication Date:	1600-1605
Type	Document
Language	Persian
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	228 mm x 139 mm (height x width)
Library:	Chester Beatty
Record ID	In 16.27
Library Location	Indian collection
Date	1600-1605
Notes	Yogi seated in the humped tortoise position (uttanakurmasana) (recto), and yogi seated in a position (verso), folio from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat). This book consists of ten chapters explaining the philosophy of hatha yoga, with paintings showing twenty-one different positions (asanas). Written in Persian, the work was composed in Gujarat c. 1550 by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), a prominent Sufi, drawing from an earlier Arabic version (Pool of life, or Hawd al-hayat), of an original Sanskrit text (Amrita Kunda, now lost). This manuscript was produced in early seventeenth-century Mughal India: it is one of three yoga-related texts commissioned for prince Selim (the future Mughal emperor, Jahangir). Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with two paintings (on recto and verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), unsigned, Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1605. This is one of twelve folios now detached from its codex (Chester Beatty In 16).
Materyal	Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold
Nesne Adı	Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)
Yazı Tipi	Nasta'liq script

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Yogi seated in the humped tortoise position (uttanakurmasana) (recto), and yogi seated in the sunasana position (verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat)

Publication Date 1600-1605

Type Document

Language Persian

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 228 mm x 139 mm (height x width)

Library Chester Beatty

Record ID In 16.27

Library Location Indian collection

Date 1600-1605

Notes Yogi seated in the humped tortoise position (uttanakurmasana) (recto), and yogi seated in a position (verso), folio from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat). This book consists of ten chapters explaining the philosophy of hatha yoga, with paintings showing twenty-one different positions (asanas). Written in Persian, the work was composed in Gujarat c. 1550 by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), a prominent Sufi, drawing from an earlier Arabic version (Pool of life, or Hawd al-hayat), of an original Sanskrit text (Amrita Kunda, now lost). This manuscript was produced in early seventeenth-century Mughal India: it is one of three yoga-related texts commissioned for prince Selim (the future Mughal emperor, Jahangir). Folio, ink, colours and gold on paper, Persian text in nasta`liq script, with two paintings (on recto and verso), from the Ocean of Immortality (Bahr al-Hayat), by Muhammad Ghwath Gwaliori (d. 1562), unsigned, Allahabad, India, c. 1600-1605. This is one of twelve folios now detached from its codex (Chester Beatty In 16).

Materyal Paper (material), Pigment (material), Ink (material), Gold

Nesne Adı Folio / Bi-Folio (Codex)

Yazı Tipi Nasta'liq script