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HASTHASANA Head to Feet Pose; Hands to Feet Pose PADANDGUSHTASANA Tiptoe Pose PADMASANA Lotus PANAPARAS Succedent house PANCHALA The region which is now the Punjab. Draupadi, heroine of the Mahabharata, was a Panchala princess. The oldest traditions pinpoint this region as the source of the ancient love teachings. The first human teacher of Kama wisdom, Svetaketu, came from Panchala. PANCHASAYAK Literally ‘The Five Arrows’, a love text composed early in the fourteenth century by Jyotirishvara Kavishekhara PANDYA The southernmost of the ancient Dravidian kingdoms, occupying the country to the north of Kanyakumari (Cape Comorin). The capital was the lovely city of Madurai. PARAMAHANSA. A spiritual title signifying a master. Only a true guru on a qualified disciple may confer it. Paramahansa literally means "supreme swan." In the Hindu scriptures, the hansa or swan symbolizes spiritual discrimination. PARAMGURU. Literally, "supreme guru" or great guru"; the guru of one’s guru. PARASARAS father of Vedic astrology, author of main system used PASCHIMOTHANASANA Forward Bend PASHUPATI Shiva, worshipped of ‘Lord of the Animals’ According to Basham, the horned ithyphallic god of the Indus Valley civilization may have been an early prototype. PATALIPUTRA Modern Patna. Founded in the fifth century BC by Ajatashatru of Magadha, it became the capital both of the Mauryan and Gupta empires. The Greek Ambassador Megasthenes, who spent several years at the court of Chandragupta Maurya, said that ‘even Susa and Ecbatana could not rival the beauty and grandeur of Pataliputra. ‘The Chinese traveler Fa Hsien, visiting the city seven hundred years later in the reign of the Gupta emperor Chandra Gupta II, said: ‘the royal palace and the halls, the walls and the gates with the inlaid sculpture work seems to be the work of superhuman spirits. ‘The city was destroyed by fire in about AD 600. PATANJALI. Ancients exponent of Yoga, whose Yoga Sutras outline the principles of the yogic path, dividing it into eight steps: 1 moral proscriptions (yama), 2 right observances (niyama), 3 meditation posture (asana), (4) life-force control (pranayama), (5) interiorization of the mind (pratyahara), (6) concertration (dharana), (7) meditation (dhyana), (8) union with God (samadhi). 
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