Shloka 66

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

कृकलः क्षुतकायैव देवदत्तो विजृम्भणे धनंजयो महाघोषः सर्वगः स मृते ऽपि हि

Transliteration

kṛkalaḥ kṣutakāyaiva devadatto vijṛmbhaṇe dhanaṃjayo mahāghoṣaḥ sarvagaḥ sa mṛte 'pi hi

Translation

कृकलः क्षुतकायैव देवदत्तो विजृम्भणे। धनंजयो महाघोषः सर्वगः स मृतेऽपि हि॥

Word by Word

• कृकलः: Kṛkala (a vital wind linked with sneezing)

• क्षुतकायः: Kṣutakāya (the bodily principle of hunger/urge to eat)

• एव: indeed/just so

• देवदत्तः: Devadatta (a vital wind linked with yawning)

• विजृम्भणे: in yawning/stretching

• धनंजयः: Dhanañjaya (a vital wind said to persist even after death)

• महाघोषः: great-sounding/booming

• सर्वगः: all-pervading

• सः: that (vital wind)

• मृते अपि: even when dead/after death

• हि: indeed/for

Speaker

Suta Goswami