Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This article adduces textual, epigraphic, and iconographic evidence to identify vestiges of the Pāśupata ascetic tradition in Nāth Yogī lineages. The Pampāmāhātmya reveals links between Pāśupata and Nāth teachings on yoga. A combination of all three varieties of sources identifies forerunners of the Nāth Yogī Dhaj Panth subdivision within the Pāśupatas. Further, Nāth iconography from its beginnings to the early modern period depicts yogis carrying clubs similar to those seen in material representations of the Pāśupata teacher Lakulīśa. Together this evidence indicates that the Pāśupatas were among the various tantric traditions that survived in modified forms in lineages of the Nāth Yogīs.
Source: PURANA Media
Author: James Mallinson
Institution: University of Oxford
Language: English
Topic: Indian and Buddhist Studies
Subfield: Religious studies
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4414606148
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