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Additional Information

• The original/earliest version of the Yogavasishtha called "Moksopaya" is downloadable at GRETIL in various encodings, e.g. as UTF file: http://www.sub.uni-goettingen.de.

• Visit tilakpyle.com for a long list of Asanas, details, poses, and audio.

• Audio files of Yogasutra chanting with svaras extracted from the Krishnamacharya, in 1938 video series with series of (unrelated) Asanas. Download/listen the parts 1_samAdhipAdaH, 2_sAdhanapAdaH, 3_vibhUtipAdaH, 4_kaivalyapAdaH.

• A searchable web-repository of classical Yoga literature is built at https://kymyogavaisharadi.org/ Yoga-vaiśāradī by Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram, with Help and support of Department of Sanskrit and Indian Culture of Sri Chandrasekarendra Saraswati Vishva Mahavidyalaya, Enathur, Kanchipuram, Shri Sushruta Ph.D (Yoga), Smt Sowmya Krishnapur Ph.D (Sanskrit).
  The web-repository of classical Yoga literature.
  Currently it contains the following texts - (May 7, 2019)
  • Vyāsa’s commentary to Yogasutra (3rd or 4th CE) - with Tamil translation
  • Tattvavaiśāradī of Vācaspati Miśra (9th or 10th century)
  • Vivaraṇa of Śaṅkara (13th Century – not settled with finality)
  • Vārttika of Vijñānabhikṣu (15th Century)
  • Bhāsvatī of Hariharānanda Āraṇya (19th century)
  • śrī-rāghavānanda-sarasvatī-viracitampātañjala-rahasyam a sub commentary to Tattvavaiśāradī of Vācaspati Miśra
  • Yogavallī a Yogasutra commentary by Sri T Krishnamacharya - in Tamil and Sanskrit
  • Srīmad-bhagavad-gīta Mūla Ślokas
  • Haṭha-yoga-pradīpika with Jyotsna commetaary of Brahmānanda
  It is also to be noted that all these texts are hierarchically arranged as - Source texts - commentaries - Sub-commentaries and are searchable in both roman and Devanagari scripts. The content can be accessed in four Indian scripts - Devanagari, Bangla, Kannada and Tamil and also IAST - Roman Transliteration. The following commentaries are being proof read uploaded to the repository and will be available in couple of months time, thus making Yogavaisharadi, a comprehensive repository on Yogasutra literature -
  
  • Rājamārtāṇḍa by Bhojadeva (1000 CE)
  • Maṇiprabhā by Rāmānanda yati (1550-1600 CE)
  • Pradīpikā by Bhāvagaṇeśa (1600 – 1700 CE)
  • Yogasiddhāntacandrikā & Sutrārthabodhinī by Nārāyaṇatīrtha (1700-1750 CE) (2)
  • Vṛtti by Nāgojibhaṭṭa (1700 – 1750 CE)
  • yogasudhākara by sadaśivendra sarasvatī (1700-1800 CE)
  • yogacandrikā anantadevapaṇḍita (1800 – 1900 CE)
  All the content is accessible for free and are in unicode format. This repository is the outcome of the work of Literary Research Division of Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram - https://www.kym.org . Contact Dr.M.Jayaraman
  Director, Research Department, Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram
  Member, BoS, Dept of Sanskrit, University of Madras and RKM Vivekananda College, Chennai
  Member, Governing Council, Bharatiya Vidvat Parishat
  http://alarka-bhasitam.blogspot.in/
  https://independent.academia.edu/jayaramanMahadevan
  http://yoga-literary-research.blogspot.in/2015/10/the-books.html

• Library of Yoga books, magazines and conference proceedings are available at http://libraryofyoga.com/. It is maintained by Vivekananda Yoga Anusandhana Samsthana or VYASA, http://svyasa.edu.in/, as a Centre of Advanced Research (CAR) in Yoga and Neurophysiology accredited by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR).

• Asian Classics Input Project (ACIP) is busy entering many Buddhist and Yoga related books.