Dvivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai [Komm.]: The Yoga-sūtra of Patanjali: (translation, with introduction, appendix, and notes based upon several authentic commentaries) (Bombay, 1890)

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intercourse, keeps temperate habits, and remains free from
worldliness, becomes a Yogin after a full twelve-months' prac-
tice. By temperance in eating is meant the eating only three-
fourths of what is actually required. The food also should
consist of substantial liquids and tasteful solids. Bitter, acid,
pungent, saltish, and hot things, as well as green Vegetables,
oil, intoxicating drugs, animal food of every description,
curds, whey, etc. are to be strictly avoided. Wheat, rice
barley, milk, ghee, sugar, butter, sugar-candy, honey, dry
ginger, the five vegetables beginning with Patol, oats ( muga),
and natural waters, are most agreeable. In the beginning
avoid fire, woman, and exertion. Young, old, decrepit, or
sick, may all obtain success by steady practice. Success attends
practice, none succeeds who lacks in practice: mere reading of
yoga-hooks, or talking on the subject, can never conduce to
success."—I. 57. 58. 59. 61—65.

" Having mastered some one posture, and observing the
rules of diet etc, the yogin may begin the study of regulating
the breath. Disturbance of mind follows disturbance of breath,
and the mind remains calm when the breath is calm ; hence
in order to attain fixity of mind, the breath should be con-
trolled. So long as the nadis, the vehicles of prdna, are ob-
structed by abnormal humours, there is no possibility of the
prdna running in the middle course ( sasumnd, ) and of accom-
plishing the unmani-mudrd. Hence prandydma should be
practised, in the first instance, for the clearance of these hum-
ours. The prandydma for this purpose is as follows. Having
assumed the padmasana posture, the yogin should inhale at
the left nostril, and having retained the breath for the time he
easily can, should let it off at the opposite nostril; and repeat
the same process beginning with the nostril where he ex-