The Persian Amṛtakuṇḍa (Amrit-kund)

Persian version of the lost Sanskrit Amṛtakuṇḍa, a manual of haṭha-yoga and breath-control, said to have been translated with the help of a Brahmin yogi, Bhojar, at Lakhnauti; known through the Arabic Ḥawḍ al-ḥayāt and later Persian recensions (Baḥr al-ḥayāt).

Date

1210–1220 CE

Author

Rukn al-Dīn al-ʿAmīdī al-Samarqandī

Place

Lakhnawtī (Gauḍa)

Text

lost