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Yajnavalkya is credited by Witzel for coining the term Advaita (non-duality of Atman and Brahman). The ideas attributed to him for renunciation of worldly attachments have been important to Hindu sannyasa traditions.
Divanji cites Tantra texts, Ayurveda tradition texts, and literature of Advaita Vedanta from the 4th century CE, which mention the Yoga Yajnavalkya, thereafter concluding that the text or some version of the Yoga Yajnavalkya text must have been in existence by the 4th century CE.
What does yajnavalkya mean?
Yajnavalkya (Sanskrit: याज्ञवल्क्य, Yājñavalkya) was a Hindu Vedic sage. Yajnavalkya proposes and debates metaphysical questions about the nature of existence and impermanence, and expounds the epistemic doctrine of neti neti (“not this, not this”) to discover the universal Self and Ātman.
Where was Yajnavalkya?
Vadnagar, India
Yajnavalkya/Place of birth
A.G. Mohan
Yoga Yajnavalkya by A.G. Mohan.
Sage Yajnavalkya had two wives — Maitreyi and Katyayani.
Who is Yajnavalkya wife?
Who has written a commentary called Mitakshara on the yajnavalkya Smriti?
The Dayabhaga and Mitakshara are the two major schools of Hindu law. The Dayabhaga School of law is based on the commentaries of Jimutvahana (author of Dayabhaga which is the digest of all Codes) and the Mitakshara is based on the commentaries written by Vijnaneswar on the Code of Yajnavalkya.
There is an interesting account about Sage Yajnavalkya and about the Yajur Veda, said Velukkudi Krishnan, in a discourse. Sage Vaisampayana had many pupils, of whom Yajnavalkya was one. Sage Vaisampayana was no ordinary teacher. He was himself the pupil of the great Sage Vyasa.
Yajnavalkya is also the name of the author of one of the principal texts of dharma or religious duty, the Yajnavalkya-smriti. This is an entirely different figure, however, since the Yajnavalkya-smriti was written more than five centuries later than the Upanishads. This article was most recently revised and updated by Matt Stefon, Assistant Editor.
When did the Yoga Yajnavalkya text come out?
Divanji cites Tantra texts, Ayurveda tradition texts, and literature of Advaita Vedanta from the 4th century CE, which mention the Yoga Yajnavalkya, thereafter concluding that the text or some version of the Yoga Yajnavalkya text must have been in existence by the 4th century CE.
Who was Yajnavalkya and what did he do?
Yajnavalkya is the name of a sage and teacher who was one of the earliest Hindu and yogic philosophers and who later became a wandering ascetic. Some believe he was an incarnation of the Hindu god, Brahma. His teachings are recorded in ” Shatapatha Brahmana” and ” Brihadaranyaka Upanishad ,” which dates to about 700 B.C.E.
Divanji premises his dating proposal from the observation that Yoga Yajnavalkya expands on ideas in Patanjali’s text, such as its list of Yamas, which includes the Patanjali’s five plus five additional ones. A. G. Mohan, an author and yoga teacher, states that the text was likely completed before the 4th century CE.