It is in the hatha method of yoga, which was codified in texts from the eleventh century onward, that the more complex, non-seated asanas that have become synonymous with yoga practice gain prominence. Two thirteenth-century texts, the earliest to teach asana as part of hatha techniques, proclaim that there are eighty-four lakh (8,400,000) asanas, but describe only two, both of which are seated postures.
The fifteenth-century Light on Hatha (Hathapradipika), the best known Sanskrit text on hatha yoga and the first to be devoted solely to the subject, describes fifteen asanas, of which seven are non-seated positionsfor meditation. Some of its verses teach non-seated asanas found in earlier works. The peacock posture, mayurasana, has the oldest heritage. Its description in the Light on Hatha is taken from a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century yoga manual composed in a Vaishnava milieu, i.e., among followers of the Hindu god Vishnu,but can be traced back through other Vaishnava texts to one from approximately the ninth century.
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The fifteenth-century Light on Hatha (Hathapradipika), the best known Sanskrit text on hatha yoga and the first to be devoted solely to the subject, describes fifteen asanas, of which seven are non-seated positionsfor meditation. Some of its verses teach non-seated asanas found in earlier works. The peacock posture, mayurasana, has the oldest heritage. Its description in the Light on Hatha is taken from a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century yoga manual composed in a Vaishnava milieu, i.e., among followers of the Hindu god Vishnu,but can be traced back through other Vaishnava texts to one from approximately the ninth century.
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