Fall of the Mughal Empire (1739-1803)

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is a collection of Sanskrit sutras (aphorisms) on the theory and practice of yoga - 195 sutras (according to Vyāsa and Krishnamacharya) and 196 sutras (according to other scholars including BKS Iyengar). The Yoga Sutras was compiled in the early centuries CE, by the sage Patanjali in India who synthesized and organized knowledge about yoga from much older traditions. The most translated ancient Indian text in the medieval era, from the 12th to the 19th century, for nearly 700 years, it was relegated to oblivion. Fortunately, in the late 19th century, it was revived by Swami Vivekananda, the Theosophical society, and others. Patanjali's yoga sutras have been translated into nearly forty Indian languages, and old Javanese and Arabic. its spiritual uses and practice, to manifestation and the process of attaining liberation, the aphorisms state the path to self-realization.