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yoga

Works in 10 traditions beyond Indian attest this concept, on 926 cited pages. Translators have rendered it as “རྣལ་འབྱོར་”; a link through a rendering is marked as such, because another translator chose differently.

Also under: “རྣལ་འབྱོར་”

62works in other traditions, with a cited page
78works in Indian, its home tradition on the maps
66further works where only a vocabulary list or keyword names it; not shown
3judged analogues in other traditions (a different word for a neighbouring idea)

Analogues, judged

A different word, in another tradition, that a reviewer judged to name a neighbouring idea. These are not attestations of yoga; each carries the reviewer’s confidence and reason.

  • mystical union Medieval Latin60%Glossed 'union/spiritual discipline' but also 'the planetary combination'; a far broader, partly astrological concept. (judged from the other side)
  • sādhana Tibetan55%Sanskrit 'spiritual practice/disciplined practice', an adjacent term; its own evidence also shows the logical sense 'means/proof'
  • spiritual exercises Renaissance & Early Modern Europe55%Arabic riyada 'spiritual exercise/ascetic practice' - an adjacent discipline in another tradition

In other traditions

Ordered by the earliest work in each tradition that attests the concept. Within a tradition, works run from earliest to latest by conventional composition date.

Zoroastrianfrom 1000 BCE · 5 works

Buddhistfrom 400 BCE · 18 works

Tibetanfrom 1050 · 13 works

Theosophical & Modern Esotericfrom 1883 · 16 works

At home in Indian

Evidence gate. A work is listed only where a translator marked the word as a term with a gloss, or kept the original word beside the English, on at least one page of a held edition. Vocabulary lists and keywords alone do not count: in a Greek vocabulary list ἡσυχία is the ordinary word for quiet. Up to 3 pages are shown per work, preferring those with a gloss. The vocabulary was built 2026-09-11; the graph on 2026-09-13.