a means, expedient, device, way, manner, method, [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
a supernatural means, charm, incantation, magical art, [ib.]
a trick, stratagem, fraud, deceit, [Mn.]; [Kathās.] (cf. yoga-nanda)
undertaking, business, work, [RV.]; [AV.]; [TS.]
acquisition, gain, profit, wealth, property, [ib.]; [Kauś.]; [MBh.]
occasion, opportunity, [Kām.]; [MārkP.]
any junction, union, combination, contact with (instr. with or without saha, or comp.), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. (yogam √ i, to agree, consent, acquiesce in anything, [R.])
mixing of various materials, mixture, [MBh.]; [R.]; [VarBṛS.]
partaking of, possessing (instr. or comp.), [Mn.]; [R.]; [Hariv.]
connection, relation (yogāt, yogena and yoga-tas ifc. in consequence of, on account of, by reason of, according to, through), [KātyŚr.]; [ŚvetUp.]; [Mn.] &c.
fitting together, fitness, propriety, suitability (°gena ind. and -tas ind. suitably, fitly, duly, in the right manner), [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c.
exertion, endeavour, zeal, diligence, industry, care, attention (°yoga-tas ind. strenuously, assiduously; pūrṇena yogena, with all one's powers, with overflowing zeal), [Mn.]; [MBh.] &c.
application or concentration of the thoughts, abstract contemplation, meditation, (esp.) self-concentration, abstract meditation and mental abstraction practised as a system (as taught by Patañjali and called the Yoga philosophy; it is the second of the two Sāṃkhya systems, its chief aim being to teach the means by which the human spirit may attain complete union with Īśvara or the Supreme Spirit; in the practice of self-concentration it is closely connected with Buddhism), [Up.]; [MBh.]; [Kāv.] &c. ([IW. 92])
any simple act or rite conducive to Yoga or abstract meditation, [Sarvad.]
Yoga personified (as the son of Dharma and Kriyā), [BhP.]
a follower of the Yoga system, [MBh.]; [Śaṃk.]
(in Sāṃkhya) the union of soul with matter (one of the 10 Mūlikārthās or radical facts), [Tattvas.]
(with Pāśupatas) the union of the individual soul with the universal soul, [Kulārṇ.]
(with Pāñcarātras) devotion, pious seeking after God, [Sarvad.]
(with Jainas) contact or mixing with the outer world, [ib.]
(in astron.) conjunction, lucky conjuncture, [Lāṭy.]; [VarBṛS.]; [MBh.] &c.
a constellation, asterism (these, with the moon, are called cāndra-yogāḥ and are 13 in number; without the moon they are called kha-yogāḥ, or nābhasa-yogāḥ), [VarBṛS.]
the leading or principal star of a lunar asterism, [W.]
N. of a variable division of time (during which the joint motion in longitude of the sun and moon amounts to 13 degrees 20 minutes; there are 27 such Yogas beginning with Viṣkambha and ending with Vaidhṛti), [ib.]
(in arithm.) addition, sum, total, [Sūryas.]; [MBh.]
(in gram.) the connection of words together, syntactical dependence of a word, construction, [Nir.]; [Suśr.] (ifc. = dependent on, ruled by, [Pāṇ. ii, 2, 8], Vārtt. 1)
a combined or concentrated grammatical rule or aphorism, [Pāṇ.], Sch.; [Siddh.] (cf. yoga-vibhāga)
the connection of a word with its root, original or etymological meaning (as opp. to rūḍhi, q.v.), [Nir.]; [Pratāp.]; [KātyŚr.], Sch.
yoga—rūḍha mfn. having a special as well as etymological and general meaning (said of certain words, e.g. paṅka-ja means ‘growing in mud’ and ‘a lotus-flower’), [Bhāṣāp.], Sch.
yoga—kanyā f. N. of the infant daughter of Yaśo-dā (substituted as the child of Devakī for the infant Kṛṣṇa and therefore killed by Kaṃsa, but immediately raised to heaven as a beautiful girl), [Hariv.]
yoga—kṣemá m. sg. and pl. (in later language also m. du. and n. sg.) the security or secure possession of what has been acquired, the keeping safe of property, welfare, prosperity, substance, livelihood, [RV.] &c. &c. (generally explained as a Dvaṃdva meaning ‘acquisition and preservation of property’, cf. kṣema-yoga; °maṃ-√ vah with dat. = to procure any one a livelihood, support, maintain, [Śak.])
the charge for securing property (from accidents), insurance, [Mn. vii, 127]
property destined for pious uses and sacrifices, [Gaut. xxviii, 46]; [Mn. ix, 219] (others ‘the means of securing protection, i.e. councillors, family priests and the like’)
yoga—nidrā f. ‘meditation-sleep’, a state of half meditation half sleep (which admits of the full exercise of the mental powers; it is peculiar to devotees), light sleep, (esp.) the sleep of Viṣṇu at the end of a Yuga, V°'s Sleep personified as a goddess and said to be a form of Durgā, [MBh.]; [Ragh.] &c.
(accord. to others) the great sleep of Brahmā during the period between the annihilation and reproduction of the universe, [MW.]
yoga—vibhāga m. the disuniting or separation of that which is usually combined, the separation of one grammatical rule into two, making two rules of what might be stated as one, [Pāṇ.], Sch.