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The Śivasaṃhitā is a prominent text in the Haṭhayoga Corpus. Many editions and
translations of it exist, but a new critical edition of it is a desideratum, as
the two previous editions which call themselves critical did not pay much
attention to the readings of their many witnesses, or did not even provide a
critical apparatus (!). Furthermore, there is obviously more manuscript
material around which has not been used by previous editors and which might
shed some more light on the history of the text.
The current paper is going to report on some of the findings of a new search of
manuscripts of the Śivasaṃhitā. One item of particular interest is the find of a
manuscript of a Tantric text of the same name, but of different content, in the
library of the Asiatic Society in Kolkata.
Peter Pasedach is a research associate at the Indological department of Hamburg University.
Currently he mostly works on a DFG-funded project on the two mahākāvyas, works of epic
court poetry, surviving from 9th-century Kashmir, and their commentaries. Another area
of his work is yoga, where he commenced a new digital critical edition of the
Śivasaṃhitā and is in the preparatory stages of a project on the Tattvavaiśāradī,
Vācaspatimiśra's commentary on the Pātañjalayogaśāstra.
