The

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The

Hatha Yoga Pradipika

The Original Sanskrit

Svatmarama

An English Translation

Brian Dana Akers

YogaVidya.com

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Publisher’s Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Svatmarama, Swami.

The Hatha yoga Pradipika / the original Sanskrit [by] Svatmarama ; an English translation [by] Brian Dana Akers.

Woodstock, NY : YogaVidya.com, 2002.

xii, [116] p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes Sanskrit and English.

ISBN 0-9716466-0-0 (hardcover)

ISBN 0-9716466-1-9 (paperback)

ISBN 978-0-9899966-4-8 (ebook)

1. Yoga, Hatha. 2. Kundalini. I. Title. II. Akers, Brian Dana, 1958-, tr.

BL1238.56.H38 2002

294.5’436—dc21 2002100228

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