avadhāraṇa
Root: dhṛ Devanāgarī: अवधारण Translation: ascertainment, affirmation, emphasis; stating or holding with positiveness or assurance; accurate determination, limitation (of the sense of words), restriction to a certain instance or instances with exclusion of any other Similar words:avadhāna, dhara Opposite words:anavadhāraṇaAppears in
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“In the present Sūtra,
the syllable Vā is often
translated as ‘an alternative‘,
but it should be noted that
Vā also means ‘an assertion‘.”
– T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 23
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