yamaka (12404)

yamaka
Entry 12404, Page 444, Col. 2

(yamaka, yamaka)
yamaka¦ (= Pali id. in sense 1), pair, paired; (1) adj. with prātihārya, paired miracle (= Pali ya° pāṭihāriya, °hīra), sc. a miracle in which pairs of opposites, such as e.g. water and fire, are simultaneously produced: °kāni prātihāryāṇi SP 459.12--460.1; read so in Bbh 152.10 for text ayamakāny (api) prāt°; (2) designation of a kind of yoga practice, = Tib. zuṅ gzug (Das) or zuṅ ḥjug (Jäschke), ‘a technical term of practical mysticism, the forcing the mind into the principal artery in order to prevent dis- traction of mind’ (Jä.) Mvy 798 yamaka-vyatyastāhāra- kuśalāḥ = zuṅ daṅ snrel zhi ḥi rgyud la mkhas pa rnams, clever in the technique (rgyud, see s.v. āhāra, 2; or, the bringing in) of the pair and the inverted (yoga practices). How the word pair applies to the above definition, given by Jäschke and Das, is not clear to me.

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