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Patanjali

Compiler of the Yoga Sutra

What they did

The Yoga Sutra sets out the eight limbs, the training of attention, the states and obstacles of the mind, and the discipline by which practice is sustained — the framework yoga teaching still follows.

The text

Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra

When

Date disputed · disputed · disputed
Attribution and dating are both debated in the scholarship

Where

Unknown or disputed.

Where it maps in modern education

Physical education and wellbeing · CBSE · ICSE · IGCSE · IB · State — Yoga and Vyayama; Dhanurveda for the martial tradition. Asana, pranayama, conditioning, concentration and the discipline of attention; traditional physical training and martial arts.

Psychology and cognitive science — Samkhya, Yoga and Buddhist Abhidharma. Attention training, states of consciousness, perception and error, the structure of mental events.

Evidence: traditionally attributed · no modern scholarly reference recorded yet.