Patanjali Drawing Giclee Print

$150.00

I drew this as a gift to my yoga teacher in 2013. I am selling a limited run of Giclee prints on archival paper. Print size is 18x24.

Patanjali is considered the noblest of sages and the progenitor of classical yoga, having collated what came to be known as the Yoga Sutras. He is also said to have written a work on Sanskrit grammar called the Mahabhasya, as well as a treatise on Ayurvedic medicine. He is an incarnation of Vishnu and is described as having four arms and a serpentine body, protected by a crown of a thousand cobras. In one hand he holds a conch shell, a disc in the second, a sword of wisdom and discrimation in the third, the remaining hand offering a blessing to humanity.

The Sanskrit at the bottom is the first sutra and reads: Atha yoganusasanam, commonly translated as "Now begins the practice of yoga.”