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@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear Friends,

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.

Does anyone know anything about this?

thanks in advance,
Matthew

Matthew T. Kapstein
Professor emeritus
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, PSL Research University, Paris

Associate
The University of Chicago Divinity School






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