[INDOLOGY] question about jyotis

[Asko Parpola]

Hoḍa in Sanskrit means ‘boat’ - it is a loan from Dravidian ōṭam ‘boat’ (h- stands for the glottal stop that precedes initial vowels in North Dravidian). Could hoḍa cakra be related to the ‘boat pose’ (nāvāsana) related to the maṇipūra cakra?

> On 19. Nov 2024, at 14.34, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
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> Dear Friends,
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> I am looking for information on the Avakahaḍa or Hoḍa Cakra. All that I could find on the net was a reference to an article in Jyotish Digest, 3rd Quarter 2012, but when I tried to access it, my computer went wild with warnings about possible identity theft, so I left it alone.
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> Does anyone know anything about this?
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> thanks in advance,
> Matthew
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> Matthew T. Kapstein
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