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Yoga (school of philosophy)

Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason Birch

Bahiryoga (बहिर्योग) refers to “external yoga”, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “The preliminary [yoga] is furnished with external Mudrās and [thus,] it is regarded as an external yoga (bahiryoga). [Whereas] the other [yoga] is richly endowed with an internal Mudrā [and] for that reason, it alone is the internal yoga”.

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Yoga is originally considered a branch of Hindu philosophy (astika), but both ancient and modern Yoga combine the physical, mental and spiritual. Yoga teaches various physical techniques also known as āsanas (postures), used for various purposes (eg., meditation, contemplation, relaxation).

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Bahiryoga (बहिर्योग).—

1) external meditation.

Derivable forms: bahiryogaḥ (बहिर्योगः).

Bahiryoga is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms bahis and yoga (योग).

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

1) Bahiryoga (बहिर्योग):—[=bahir-yoga] [from bahir > bahis] m. relation to ‘outside’, sense or meaning of ‘bahis, outside’ [Pāṇini 1-1, 36]

2) [v.s. ...] external meditation (cf. antar-y), [Catalogue(s)]

3) [v.s. ...] Name of a man ([plural] his descendants) [gana] yaskādi.

[Sanskrit to German]

Bahiryoga in German

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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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Partial matches: Bahis, Yoga.

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