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  2. Astavakrasana - Wikipedia

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    Astavakrasana is a hand balance with lateral twist. The pose is entered from a squatting position, one arm between the feet, the other just outside the other foot, palms on the floor. Pushing up and lifting both legs from the floor gives a variant or preparatory position, with both legs bent, one leg over one forearm, the other leg crossed over ...

  3. File:Astavakrasana.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Summary. Description: English: 8 angle pose or astavakrasana, a hand balance yoga pose with twist. Date: 1 December 2012, 11:21:14 ... Supported Flashpix version: 1 ...

  4. Instruction of Amenemope - Wikipedia

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    The most complete text of the Instruction of Amenemope is British Museum Papyrus 10474, acquired in Thebes by E. A. Wallis Budge in early 1888. [1] [9] The scroll is approximately 12 feet (3.7 m) long by 10 inches (250 mm) wide; the obverse side contains the hieratic text of the Instruction, while the reverse side is filled with a miscellany of lesser texts, including a "Calendar of Lucky and ...

  5. Yoga - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known discussions of yoga in Buddhist literature, as understood in a modern context, are from the later Buddhist Yogācāra and Theravada schools. [ 129 ] Jain meditation is a yoga system which predated the Buddhist school.

  6. John Milton - Wikipedia

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    John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including twelve books, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval.

  7. Champu - Wikipedia

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    In Kannada literature, [4] this metre was popularised by the Chalukya court poets, like Adikavi Pampa (902 CE -975 CE), who wrote his Adipurana in Champu style popularizing it. Also known as champu-kavya ) was the most popular written form from the 9th century onwards, although it started to fall into disuse in the 12th century.

  8. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is - Wikipedia

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    Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is suggests a way of life for the contemporary Western world, and is derived from the Manu Smriti and other books of Hindu religious and social law. In this way of life, ideal human society is described as being divided into four varnas (brahmana – intellectuals, kshatriya – administrators, vaishya – merchants, shudra – workers).

  9. Vasavadatta - Wikipedia

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    Vasavadatta is also a character in the Svapnavasavadatta and the Vina-Vasavadatta Vasavadhata - oil painting by Rajasekharan Parameswaran.. Vasavadatta (Sanskrit: वासवदत्ता, Vāsavadattā) is a classical Sanskrit romantic tale (akhyayika) written in an ornate style by Subandhu, whose time period isn't precisely known.