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piracy stood on its head," he said.

Kiran Sawhney of Fitnesolution, a fitness and yoga centre in the capital, said yoga as such can't be patented but a particular style can.

"How can you patent yoga? It's knowledge. But yes, if someone has devised a particular style then that can be patented," Sawhney said.

She said that hot yoga, which is essentially yoga in a steam room, was devised by Indian born Bikram Choudhury, who teaches in California and has recently patented it.

Interestingly, Ramdev referred to this style of yoga and said: "How can yoga be taught at a controlled 45 degrees centigrade temperature when it is ideally taught in the cold Himalayas?"

The US Patent and Trademark office has issued 150 yoga related copyrights, 134 trademarks on yoga accessories and 2,315 yoga trademarks.

Taking a cue from this, the Indian government has set up a task force that is cataloguing traditional knowledge, including Ayurvedic remedies and yoga postures to protect them from being pirated and copyrighted by foreigners.

The data, which will be translated from ancient Sanskrit and Tamil texts, will be stored digitally and be available in five international languages.


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