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Source: ORA: Amanaska (king of all yogas): A Critical Edition and Annotated Translation by Jason BirchNakedness is denoted by the Sanskrit term Nagnatva, according to the Amanaska Yoga treatise dealing with meditation, absorption, yogic powers and liberation.—Accordingly, as Īśvara says to Vāmadeva: “[...] Putting on ochre garments, carrying a skull, plucking out clumps of hair, maintaining non-vedic religious observances, ashes, ascetic clothing and matted locks, behaving as if mad, [the ascetic practice of] nakedness (nagnatva), [studying] the Vedas, Tantras and so on and the meeting [of learned people] for [reciting] poetry in the assembly: All [this] is exertion for the sake of filling one's stomach and is not the cause of the highest good. [...]”.
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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Full-text (+120): Nagnatva, Nagnata, Avastrata, Nagnya, Digambaratva, Nagna, Jatarupa, Naggatta, Nagavem-ughadem, Acelatva, Tikamparam, Niruvana, Pirantakolam, Nirgramthatva, Muntaikkattai, Vivastrata, Huttuduge, Mottaikkattai, Digvasana, Nagavem Ughadem.
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Vinaya Pitaka (3): Khandhaka (by I. B. Horner)
On rejection of nakedness < [8. Robes (Cīvara)]
The story of Visākhā < [8. Robes (Cīvara)]
Tattvartha Sutra (with commentary) (by Vijay K. Jain)
Verse 9.15 - The afflictions caused by the conduct-deluding karmas < [Chapter 9 - Stoppage and Shedding of Karmas]
Verse 9.9 - The twenty-two kinds of afflications (parīṣaha) < [Chapter 9 - Stoppage and Shedding of Karmas]
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 7.92 < [Section VIII - Duties in Battle (saṅgrāma)]
Verse 6.44 < [Section VI - Procedure of going forth as a Wandering Mendicant]
Verse 4.30 < [Section VII - Attending upon Guests]
The Indian Buddhist Iconography (by Benoytosh Bhattachacharyya)
Naked Nature < [July – September, 1993]
Taste versus Nudity in Letters < [January – March, 1999]
A Linguistic Factor in Tamil < [July – Sept. & Oct. – Dec. 1992]
Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Rig Veda 10.33.2 < [Sukta 33]