Other Sanyásis remain twelve years standing upon one leg, and this class is called _Thávésar_.[230] Those who keep continual silence are called _Máunínas_.[231] Many other, like these, are mentioned in Hindu books, which the author of this work perused, but has no room for describing them all in these pages; some of this class are men of consideration and opulence, and are escorted by files of elephants; they have carriages, fine apparel, courtiers, servants, on foot and horseback. [176] ईश. [177] जीव [178] अभ्यासयोग the practice of frequent and repeated contemplation of any deity, or abstract spirit, repeated recollection, etc. [179] योगः among a great number of significations has that of “religious exercise.” [180] अभ्यास means, properly, “constant, eternal repetition.” [181] यम religious restraint, or obligation. [182] नियम or नियाम any religious observance voluntarily practised. [183] आसन sitting in some particular posture, as is the custom of the devotees; eighty-four kinds are enumerated. [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. [194] तापस. [195] जाप muttering prayers. [196] शाम. [197] शुाचि. [198] ईशपूजा. [199] See the signification of _dhárana_, as taken from Wilson’s Dict., and given in note 6, p. 125. [200] अलोक Heaven. [201] गोरखनाथ a name adopted by a class of Yógis――(_Wils. Dict._, sub voce, _nátha_.) [202] Perhaps मचर्चिक नाथ _macharchika nátha_, “lord of excellence,” or “happiness.” [203] Probably चूडाङ्कनाथ _chúdánka nátha_, “lord of the ornament of the crest.”