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Bhagavai 3:5:207-209
-: 133 :According to Iyangar, the posture paryankāsana is slightly different from the posture of supta-vajrāsana. It is a posture, in which the top of the head touches the ground, the back is raised upward together with the neck and breast also raised; no part of the trunk touches the ground.?
Paryarka means a bed or a sofa. The shape of the supta-vajrāsana becomes like that of a bed. For this reason, the expression “duhao palyanka” may mean supta-vajräsana. The meaning of 'egao palyarka' is ardhavajrāsana--that is to sit by resting the lower part of a thigh on a foot; and to seat by folding the second foot and raising up the knee. For detailed information about paryankāsuna, see Bha. 2.62.
1. Mülārādhanā, 3.224-25. 2. Yogadīpikā, p.89.
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3.208 evam duhaopaliyamkam pi.
Similarly, 'man sitting in full lotus-posture'.
Bhāviappa-abhijumjanā-padam 3.209 anagăre nam bhamte! bhāviappā bāhirae poggale apariyāittā pabhū egam maham āsarūvam vā hatthirūvam vā sīharūvam vă viggharūvam vā vigarūvam vā dīviyarūvam vā accharūvam taraccharūvam vā parāsararūvam vā abhijumjittae? no inathe samatthe. The Topic of the Sorcery of a Self-cultivated Ascetic
Can a self-cultivated ascetic create (by exercising his protean power), without appropriating external material clusters,' the shapes of voluminous horse, elephant, lion, tiger, wolf, leopard, bear, hyena or octopad (and enter into and pervade their body) by his occult powers? "No, this is not possible."
Bhāşya 1. External Material Clusters
In sūtra 3.194, we get the reading as bāhirae poggale. There, the Vrtti explains it as the protean material cluster.' In the present Sūtra the same is explained as the external material cluster appropriated by the power of the occult science. The reason is that in sūtra 3.194, the creation of forms by the protean power potential is mentioned, whereas in the present Sūtra the entering into other body is described. Semantics vska--wolf dvipika-leopard
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