Kalavancana, Kala-vancana, Kālavañcana: 6 definitions
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Alternative spellings of this word include Kalavanchana.
In Hinduism
Yoga (school of philosophy)
Source: Google Books: The Khecarividya of AdinathaKālavañcana (कालवञ्चन), “deceiving Death”, is a common motif of tantric and haṭhayogic texts. Indeed, mastery over Death is the sine qua non of the perfected haṭhayogin: yoga is said to be kālasya vañcanam at Gorakṣaśataka 5-6; the mahāsiddhas listed at Haṭhapradīpikā 1.5-9 are said to have broken the rod of death (khaṇḍayitvā kāladaṇḍam). At Gorakhbāṇī-sākhī 219ab the tongue is associated with kālavañcana: jibhyā indrī ekai nāl jo rākhai so baṃcai kāl, “the tongue and the penis [are joined by] one channel; who knows this deceives Death”.
Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (yoga)Kālavañcana (कालवञ्चन) refers to “cheating death”, according to the Siddhāntamuktāvalī, an 18th-century text on Haṭhayoga consisting of 1553 verses.—The Siddhāntamuktāvalī significantly extends the original Haṭhapradīpikā by adding sections on the purification of the channels (nāḍīśuddhi), meditation (dhyāna), cheating death (kālavañcana) and indifference (audāsīnya).
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).
Shaivism (Shaiva philosophy)
Source: academia.edu: Chapter Nineteen of the KakṣapuṭatantraKālavañcana (कालवञ्चन) refers to “cheating death” and is another name for Mṛtyuvañcana as mentioned in the Kakṣapuṭatantra 19.42.—When a practitioner realizes that his death is approaching through signs of death, he should perform either of two kinds of sādhana. The first one is for avoiding death, and the second one is for preparing for death. Mṛtyuvañcana, Kālavañcana and Mṛtyuṃjay are all classified as part of the first kind. In the Kakṣapuṭatantra, it is said that yoga, abhyāsa (recitation), mantra and rasāyana are effective for cheating death.
Shaiva (शैव, śaiva) or Shaivism (śaivism) represents a tradition of Hinduism worshiping Shiva as the supreme being. Closely related to Shaktism, Shaiva literature includes a range of scriptures, including Tantras, while the root of this tradition may be traced back to the ancient Vedas.
Ayurveda (science of life)
Source: Ancient Science of Life: Snake bite treatment in Prayoga samuccayamKālavañcana (कालवञ्चन) refers to “extreme measures”, including highly potent medicines used in the treatment of poison (viṣa), according to the 20th century Prayogasamuccaya (one of the most popular and widely practised book in toxicology in Malayalam).—The fifth chapter explains common measures that can be adopted in all snake bite cases when exact identification of snake cannot be done. Single drug preparations that relieve fainting and all types of poisons are mentioned. Highly potent medicines are mentioned under the tile of kālavañcana-prayogas (extreme measures). Medications to regain the pulse of a bite victim, drugs which make the poison to get vomited out have also been detailed here. [...]
Āyurveda (आयुर्वेद, ayurveda) is a branch of Indian science dealing with medicine, herbalism, taxology, anatomy, surgery, alchemy and related topics. Traditional practice of Āyurveda in ancient India dates back to at least the first millenium BC. Literature is commonly written in Sanskrit using various poetic metres.
Languages of India and abroad
Marathi-English dictionary
Source: DDSA: The Molesworth Marathi and English Dictionarykālavañcana (कालवंचन).—n (S) kālavañcanā f (S) Beguiling the time. 2 Eluding Death.
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kāḷavañcanā (काळवंचना).—f A passing of time. 2 A deceiving of Death:--as the Yogis by abstraction in particular attitudes pretend to do.
Source: DDSA: The Aryabhusan school dictionary, Marathi-Englishkālavañcanā (कालवंचना).—f Beguiling the time. Eluding death.
Marathi is an Indo-European language having over 70 million native speakers people in (predominantly) Maharashtra India. Marathi, like many other Indo-Aryan languages, evolved from early forms of Prakrit, which itself is a subset of Sanskrit, one of the most ancient languages of the world.
See also (Relevant definitions)
Partial matches: Vancana, Kala.
Starts with: Kalavancanam yoginam.
Full-text: Kalavancanam yoginam, Yoginam kalavancanam, Vancana, Audasinya, Shuddhi, Nadishuddhi, Siddhantamuktavali, Mrityuvancana, Mrityunjaya.
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