The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1854 page)

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(Skt., ‘endowing with breath’). The ritual acts in Hinduism through which life is endowed on a representation of God, so that the divine reality becomes active in and through the image.
Pr
y
ma
(Skt.). Breath (
pr
a
) control in
yoga
; the fourth limb of
Patañjali's
eight-limbed (a
ga) or
r
ja
yoga. In the
Yoga S
tra
(2. 49) Patañjali defines it as the ‘cutting off (
viccheda
) of the flow of inhalation and exhalation’ which is achieved after the attaining of ‘posture’ (
sana
) and prepares the mind for concentration (
dh
ra
).
Ha
ha Yoga
texts connect pr

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