aṣṭāṅga

1 Eight parts of the body, the hands, breast, forehead, eyes, throat and middle of the back; or four first, with the knees and feet; or these six, with the words and mind.

2 Any whole consisting of eight parts or members.

3 The eight parts of a court, or the law, the judge, assessors, scribe and astrologer, gold, fire and water.

3 A die, dice.

E. aṣṭa eight, and aṅga a limb.

n. (-ṅgaṃ)

1. Eight parts of the body, the hands, breast, forehead,
eyes, throat and middle of the back; or four first, with the kness
and feet; or these six, with the words and mind.

2. Any whole con-
sisting of eight parts or members.

3. The eight parts of a court, or
the law, the judge, assessors, scribe and astrologer, gold, fire and
water.

4. A die, dice.

E. aṣṭa eight, and aṅga a limb.

bra. Wils. «eight parts of the body, the hands. breast,

forehead, eyes, throat and middle of the back; or four

first, with the knees and feet; or these six with the words

and mind.»

parts; so often of the 8-fold way, e.g. Mv iii.332.10 āryā-

ṣṭāṅgo mārgo; Gv 521.5 aṣṭāṅga-poṣadhe (see poṣadha;

Pali aṭṭhaṅguposatha; = observance of the sabbath main-

taining the 8 [first of the 10] precepts, sīla, see CPD s.v.);

prob. this is meant by °ga-samanvāgataṃ vrataṃ Av

i.170.13 and °ga-samanvāgata upavāsa 339.7 ff.; (2) either

alone, as Bhvr., or aṣṭāṅgopeta, having 8 (unspecified

good) qualities, substantially = excellent, fine, supreme,

so Pali aṭṭhaṅga (-samannāgata, etc.), said of food, fields,

men, a voice; in BHS I have recorded it only of water

(! with never any indication of any specific 8 qualities):

Mv ii.365.7 aṣṭāṅga-jala (mss., confirmed by quotation

Śikṣ 299.13); 386.20 (vs) aṣṭāṅgupetāṃ (but prob. read

with v.l. °taṃ, and jala as separate word) jala (text cpds.

with next) śobhamānāṃ…puṣkiriṇyo; Av ii.84.15

aṣṭāṅgopetaṃ pānīyaṃ; Śikṣ 350.8 aṣṭāṅgopetapānīya-;

aṣṭāṅgopeta-, also of water, Kv 8.1; 60.11; Mmk 105.20;

Gv 100.25 (misprinted °pata); 163.10; 193.20; 202.20;

AsP 363.5; Sukh 93.16; aṣṭāṅga-vāriparipūrṇā Kv 12.20;

aṣṭāṅga-saliladhārābhiḥ Mmk 444.3; aṣṭāṅga sad-vāri Gv

336.7 (vs); °ga-saṃmitam (mss. °mataṃ, read so ?) Mv

iii.94.5 (vs), ep. of sopānīya(ṃ), q.v.

of (1) niyama (restraint of the mind), (2) āsana (a parti-

cular posture or mode of sitting), (3) prāṇāyāma (restraining or

suspending the breath during the mental recitation of the names

or attributes of a deity), (4) yama (self-control), (5) pratyā-

hāra (restraining the organs), (6) dhāraṇa (the faculty of

retaining in the mind, steady abstraction of mind), (7)

dhyāna (abstract contemplation, religious meditation), and

(8) samādhi (perfect absorption of thought in the one object

of meditation, i. e. the Supreme Spirit); mentioned in connec-

tion with obeisance, it means the 8 parts of the body, viz., the

two hands, chest, forehead, two knees and two feet (cf. aṣṭāṅga-

namaskāra).