Shvasaprashvasadharana, Śvāsapraśvāsadhāraṇa: 3 definitions

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The Sanskrit term Śvāsapraśvāsadhāraṇa can be transliterated into English as Svasaprasvasadharana or Shvasaprashvasadharana, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śvāsapraśvāsadhāraṇa (श्वासप्रश्वासधारण).—n.

(-ṇaṃ) Breathing through the nostrils for a few seconds as a religious exercise: see prāṇāyāma. E. śvāsa inspiration, praśvāsa expiration, and dhāraṇa holding or checking.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śvāsapraśvāsadhāraṇa (श्वासप्रश्वासधारण):—[=śvāsa-praśvāsa-dhāraṇa] [from śvāsa > śvas] n. suppression or suspension of inspiration and expiration (= prāṇāyāma q.v.), [Monier-Williams’ Sanskrit-English Dictionary]

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Yates Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Śvāsapraśvāsadhāraṇa (श्वासप्रश्वासधारण):—[śvāsa-praśvāsa-dhāraṇa] (ṇaṃ) 1. n. Breathing through the nostrils as a religious exercise.

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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