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/padˈmɑːsənə/ · noun
(yoga) A pose in which one sits cross-legged with each foot sole-upwards on the opposite leg; the lotus position..
When he was a child of four, he sat in padmasan, his backbone a relaxed ninety degrees to the ground, for five or six hours while the singer or instrumentalist expounded a raga.
Iconographically - according to Rupamandana, Brahma is depicted as standing or sitting padmasana with four heads […]
One sculpture (P/27-R/4) on southern wall towards west of the gopura dvara shows a person sitting padmasana on Yoga danda.
[…] oh, even the clay khaddar-turbaned and dhoti-loinclothed fakir snake charmer sitting padmasana on his dhurry mat swaying from shrab and blowing jadu musica ficta, or the kind in the background of daravani films, on his miniature pungi flute in front of his jhow basket and donation bowl while diminutive papier mache nude bayaderes were scaling ambary ropes which the serpentwood flute’s notes caused to rise up from the basket for them to escape being pursued by a nittany hissing cobra . . . Fascinating!
There’s a little guy sitting padmasana on the hood, there in the middle of the concentric rings of cramped white letters.
There are two ways of finding an Earth Chakra. You ask or you experience. You could ask the guy stripped to the waist sitting padmasana in the centre of the castle courtyard but he’s otherwise engaged.
Use padmasana when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Padmasana means (yoga) A pose in which one sits cross-legged with each foot sole-upwards on the opposite leg; the lotus position..
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When he was a child of four, he sat in padmasan, his backbone a relaxed ninety degrees to the ground, for five or six hours while the singer or instrumentalist expounded a raga.
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