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NADI
Nerve channel
NAGARA
A name sometimes used for Pataliputra,
the capital city of the Guptas. But here it probably refers to another city,
because when Vatsyayana wants to say Pataliputra he says it without equivocation
NAGAS
A group of hill tribes inhabiting the
region between Assam and Burma. They were hostile to the Aryans and managed to
preserve their independence until the nineteenth century.
NAKSHATRAS
27 lunar constellations or asterisms
NANDI
the white bulls whom serves Shiva as a
mount. In mythology he was the guardian at Shiva’s gate and even today there
is a carved white marble bull guarding the door of every Shiva temple.
NATARAJASANA
Lord Nataraja’s Pose
NAULI
a kriya for cleaning the nasal passage
NAVAMSA
Harmonic ninth chart
NIRGUNA
A type of meditation; literally
"without qualities"
NIYAMA
One of five observances
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