[184] प्राणायामः breathing in a peculiar way through the nostrils, during the mental recitation of the names or attributes of some deity.

[185] प्रत्याहारः abstraction; insensibility; restraining the organs so as to be indifferent to disagreeable or agreeable excitement.

[186] धारणं fortitude; keeping the mind collected, the breath suspended, and all natural wants restrained; steady immoveable abstraction.

[187] ध्यानं meditation; reflection; mental representation of the personal attributes of the divinity to whom worship is addressed.

[188] समधारण see dhárana; sama is an intensitive.

[189] अहिंसा harmlessness, one of the cardinal virtues of most Hindu sects.

[190] सत्यं.

[191] अस्तेयं.

[192] ब्रह्मचारी a religious student, an ascetic of a certain class.

[193] अप्रग्रह.