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The
Yogasastra of Hemachandra
By
Mr. Olle Qvarnstrom
A Twelfth Century Handbook on Shvetambara
Jainism
Publisher :
Harvard Oriental Studies, Vol. 60, Cambridge :
Harvard University Press, 2002.
This book is a translation of Hemachandra's Yogasastra into English. The
Yogasastra, the most comprehensive treatise on Shvetambara Jainism, was written in the
12th century by the polymath Hemachandra. It is a systematic presentation of a set of
ideas and practices originally belonging to the Shvetambara integrates innovations of his
own as well as non-Jain elements o pan-Indian and Saiva provenance, attesting to a strong
Tantric influence on mediaeval Jainism.
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