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Vasu, Srisa Chandra [Hrsg.]
The Gheraṇḍa sanhita: a treatise on Hatha yoga — Bombay, 1895

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Agnisar or fire process. This grves snccess in
the practice of Yoga, it cnres all the diseases of
and increases the fire of the stomach (gastric juice.)
22. This form of Dhouti should he kept very
secret, and it is hardly to be attained even by the
gods. By this Dhauti alone one certainly gets a
luminous body.
Bahiskrita-Dhouti.
23. By Kakachaucha or crow-bill Mudrafillthe
stomach with air, hold it there for one hour and a
half, and then force it down towards the intestines.
This Dhouti must be kept a great secret, and must
not be revealed to any body.
24. Then standing in navel-deep water, draw
ont the Saktinadi (long intestines), wash the Nadi
with hand, and so long as its filth is not all washed
away, wash it with care, and then draw it in ugain
into the abdomen.
25. This process should be kept secret. It is
not easily to be attained eveu by the gods, simply
by tliis Dhouti one gets Deva-deha (Godlike body.)
26. As long as a person has not the power of
retaining the breath for an hour aiid a half (or re-
taining wind in the stomach for that period) so long
he cannot achieve this grand Dhouti or purification
known as Bahiskritadhauti.
2.—Danta-Dhouti or Teeth Purification.
27. Danta-Dhouti is of five kinds : purificatiorx
of the teeth, of the root of the tongue, of the two
holes of the ear, and of the frontal-senews.
 
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