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Wikipedia, "Yamas"
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A community-maintained tertiary reference on the yamas, directly examined. Its strength is naming specific texts beyond Patanjali with their own yama counts, showing the category was never fixed to one canonical list; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than an indological monograph, which is why it sits at reliability tier three.
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Wikipedia's article on the yamas, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Rigvedic etymology of yama as a rein or curb, the named texts beyond Patanjali that list ten yamas (Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Shandilya Upanishad, Yajnavalkya Smriti, Tirumantiram), and the sixty-text count of the genre. NotesWikipedia's article on the yamas, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Rigvedic etymology of yama as a rein or curb, the named texts beyond Patanjali that list ten yamas (Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Shandilya Upanishad, Yajnavalkya Smriti, Tirumantiram), and the sixty-text count of the genre.
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Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamas
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This source names Patanjali directly: "Its strength is naming specific texts beyond Patanjali with their own yama counts, showing the category was never fixed to one canonical list; its limit is a Wikipedia community article rather than..."
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- Sources, 9 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Doctrines, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 3 general references.
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