yogaḥ [yuj bhāvādau ghañ kutvaṃ] 1 Joining, uniting. 2 Union, junction, combination; uparāgāṃte śaśinaḥ samupagatā rohiṇī yogaṃ Ś. 7. 22; guṇamahatāṃ mahate guṇāya yogaḥ Ki. 10. 25; (vāṃ) yogastaḍittoyadayorivāstu R. 6. 65. 3 Contact, touch, connection; tamaṃkamāropya śarīrayogajaiḥ sukhairniṣiṃcaṃtamivāmṛtaṃ tvaci R. 3. 26. 4 Employment, application, use; etairupāyayogaistu śakyāstāḥ parirakṣituṃ Ms. 9. 10; R. 10. 86. 5 Mode, manner, course, means, kathāyogena budhyate H. 1. ‘in the course of conversation’. 6 Consequence, result; (mostly at the end of comp. or in abl.); rakṣāyogādayamapi tapaḥ pratyahaṃ saṃcinoti Ś. 2. 14; Ku. 7. 55. 7 A yoke. 8 A conveyance, vehicle, carriage. 9 (a) An armour. (b) Putting on armour. 10 Fitness, propriety, suitableness. 11 An occupation, a work, business. 12 A trick, fraud, device. 13 An expedient, plan, means (pb) in general. 14 Endeavour, zeal, diligence, assiduity; Ms. 7. 44. 15 Remedy, cure. 16 A charm, spell, incantation, magic, magical art. 17 Gaining, acquiring, acquisition. 18 The equipment of an army. 19 Fixing, putting on. 20 A side; an argument. 21 An occasion, opportunity. 22 Possibility, occurrence. 23 Wealth, substance. 24 A rule, precept. 25 Dependence, relation, regular order or connection, dependence of one word upon another. 26 Etymology or derivation of the meaning of a word. 27 The etymological meaning of a word (opp. rūḍhi); avayavaśaktiryogaḥ. 28 Deep and abstract meditation, concentration of the mind, contemplation of the Supreme Spirit, which in Yoga phil. is defined as cittavṛttinirodha; satī satī yogavisṛṣṭadehā Ku. 1. 21; V. 1. 1; yogenāṃte tanutyajāṃ R. 1. 8. 29 The system of philosophy esablished by Patañjali, which its considered to be the second division of the Sāṃkhya philosophy, but is practically reckoned as a separate system. (The chief aim of the Yoga philosophy is to teach the means by which the human soul may be completely united with the Supreme Spirit and thus secure absolution; and deep abstract meditation is laid down as the chief means of securing this end, elaborate rules being given for the proper practice of such Yoga or concentration of mind). 30 A follower of the Yoga system of philosophy. 31 (In arith.) Addition. 32 (In astr.) Conjunction, lucky conjunction. 33 A combination of stars. 34 N. of a particular astronomical division of time (27 such Yogas are usually enumerated). 35 The principal star in a lunar mansion. 36 Devotion, pious seeking after god. 37 A spy, secret agent. 38 A traitor, a violator of truth or confidence. Comp. — aṃgaṃ a means of attaining Yoga: (these are eight; for their names see yama 5). — aṃjanaṃ a healing ointment. — anuśāsanaṃ the doctrine of the Yoga. — ācāraḥ 1 the practice or observance of Yoga. 2 a follower of that Buddhist (pb) school which maintains the eternal existence of intelligence or vijñāna alone. — ācāryaḥ 1 a teacher of magic. 2 a teacher of the Yoga philosophy. — ādhamanaṃ a fraudulent pledge; Ms. 8. 165. — ārūḍha a. engaged in profound and abstract meditation. — āsanaṃ a posture suited to profound and abstract meditation. — iṃdraḥ, -īśaḥ, -īśvaraḥ 1 an adept in or a master of Yoga. 2 one who has obtained superhuman faculties. 3 a magician. 4 a deity. 5 an epithet of Śiva. 6 a Vetāla. 7 an epithet of Yājṇavalkya. — iṣṭaṃ 1 tin. 2 lead. — ka kṣā = yogapaṭṭaṃ below. — kanyā N. of the infant daughter of Yaśodā (substituted as the child of Devakī for Kṛṣṇa and killed by Kaṃsa.). — kṣemaḥ 1 security of possession, keeping safe of property. 2 the charge for securing property from accidents, insurance. 3 welfare, well-being, security, prosperity; teṣāṃ nityābhiyuktānāṃ yogakṣemaṃ vahāmyahaṃ Bg. 9. 22: mugdhāyā me jananyā yogakṣemaṃ vahasva M. 4. 4 property, profit, gain. (— mau, -me or — maṃ, i. e. m. or n. dual or n. sing.) acquisition and preservation (of property), gain and security, preserving the old and acquiring the new (not previously obtained); alabhyalābho yogaḥ syāt kṣemo labdhasya pālanam; see Y. 1. 100 and Mit. thereon. — gatiḥ f. primitive condition. — cakṣus m. a Brāhmaṇa. — cūrṇaṃ a magical powder, a powder having magical virtues; kalpitamanena yogacūrṇāmiśritamauṣadhaṃ caṃdraguptāya Mu. 2. — jaṃ agallochum. — talpaṃ = yoganidrā. — tārakā, -tārā the chief star in a Nakṣatra or constellation. — dānaṃ 1 communicating the Yoga doctrine. 2 a fraudulent gift. — dhāraṇā perseverance or steady continuance in devotion. — nāthaḥ 1 an epithet of Śiva 2 of Datta. — nidrā 1 a state of half contemplation and half sleep, a state between sleep and wakefulness; i. e. light sleep; yoganidrāṃ gatasya mama Pt. 1; H. 3. 75; Bh. 3. 41. 2 particularly, the sleep of Viṣṇu at the end of a Yuga; R. 10. 14; 13. 6. 3 N. of Durgā. — nidrāluḥ N. of Viṣṇu. — nilayaḥ N. of Śiva. — paddaṃ a cloth thrown (pb) over the back and knees of an ascetic during abstract meditation. — patiḥ an epithet of Viṣṇu. — pādukā a magical shoe. — pāraṃgaḥ N. of Śiva. — balaṃ 1 the power of devotion or abstract meditation, any supernatural power. 2 power of magic. — bhāvanā (in alg.) composition of numbers by the sum of their products. — māyā 1 the magical power of the Yoga. 2 the power of God in the creation of the world personified as a deity; (bhagavataḥ sarjanārthā śāktiḥ). 3 N. of Durgā. — raṃgaḥ the orange. — ratnaṃ a magical jewel. — rājaḥ 1 a kind of medicinal preparation. 2 one well versed in Yoga. — rūḍha a. having an etymological as well as a special or conventional meaning (said of a word); e. g. the word paṃkaja etymologically means ‘anything produced in mud’, but in usage or popular convention it is restricted to some things only produced in mud, such as the lotus; cf. the word ātapatra or ‘parasol’. — rocanā a kind of magical ointment said to have the power of making one invisible or invulnerable; tena ca parituṣṭena yogarocanā me dattā Mk. 3. — vartikā a magical lamp or wick. — vāhaḥ a term for the sounds visarjanīya, jihva mūlīya, upadhmānīya and nāsikya q.q. v.v. — vāsiṣṭhaṃ N. of a work (treating of the means of obtaining final beatitude by means of Yoga). — vāhin m., n. a medium for mixing medicines; e. g. honey; nānādravyātmakatvācca yogavāhi paraṃ madhu Suśr. — vāhī 1 an alkali. 2 honey. 3 quicksilver. — vikrayaḥ a fraudulent sale. — vid a. 1 knowing the proper method, skilful, clever. 2 conversant with Yoga. (— m.) 1 an epithet of Śiva. 2 a practiser of Yoga. 3 a follower of the Yoga doctrines 4 a magician. 5 a compounder of medicines. — vidhiḥ practice of Yoga or mental abstraction; R. 8. 22. — vibhāgaḥ separation of that which is usually combined together into one; especially, the separation of the words of a Sūtra, the splitting of one rule into two or more (frequently used by Patañjali in his Mahābhāṣya; e. g. see adaso māt P. I. 1. 12). — śabdaḥ a word the meaning of which is plain from the etymology. — śāyin (pb) a. half asleep and half absorbed in contemplation; cf. yoganidrā. — śāstraṃ the Yoga philosophy. — samādhiḥ the absorption of the soul in profound and abstract contemplation; tamasaḥ paramāpadavyayaṃ puruṣaṃ yogasamādhinā raghuḥ R. 8. 24. — sāraḥ a universal remedy; a panacea. — sūtraṃ aphorisms of the Yoga system of philosophy (attributed to Patañjali). — sevā the practice of abstract meditation.

yogas n. meditation, religious abstraction, Uṇ. iv, 215, Sch.

the half of a lunar month, ib.

yoga &c. See pp. 856, 858.

yoga m. (√ 1. yuj; ifc. f(ā). ) the act of yoking, joining, attaching, harnessing, putting to (of horses), RV.; MBh.