पर्यङ्क

{ paryaṅkḥ }

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

पर्य्-अङ्क  mfn.  m. (also पल्य्°, [Pāṇ. 8-2, 22]) a bed, couch, sofa, litter, palanquin, [KauṣUp.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (also °किका f., [Kād.]; °की-कृत mfn. turned into a couch, [Gīt.])

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पर्य् अङ्क

a partic. mode of sitting on the ground (a squatting position assumed by ascetics and Buddhists in meditation), [Buddh.] ( cf. below)
a cloth wound round the back and loins and knees while so sitting, [L.]
N. of a mountain (son of विन्ध्य), [L.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

पर्यङ्कः [paryaṅkḥ]   1 A bed, couch, sofa; क्वचिद् भूमौ शायी क्वचिदपि च पर्यङ्कशयनः [Bh.2.81.]
A palanquin.
A cloth girt round the back, loins, and knees (by a person) when sitting on his hams; cf. अवसक्थिका
A particular kind of posture practised by ascetics in meditation, sitting on the hams; it is the same as वीरासन which is thus defined by Vasiṣṭha: एकं पादमथैकस्मिन् विन्यस्योरौ तु संस्थितं । इतरस्मिंस्तथैवोरुं वीरासनमुदाहृतम् ॥ पर्यङ्क- ग्रन्थिबन्ध &c. [Mk.1.1.] -Comp.
-ग्रन्थिः, बन्धः   sitting on the hams, the posture called पर्यङ्क; पर्यङ्कबन्धस्थिरपूर्व- कायम् [Ku.3.45,59.]
-बद्ध a.  a. squatting.
-भोगिन्  m. m. a kind of serpent.