Tiryakarota

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Tiryakarota

(Sk.)

From tiryak “crooked ”, and srotas (digestive) “canal”. The name of the “creation” by Brahmâ of men or beings, whose stomachs were, on account of their erect position as bipeds, in a horizontal position. This is a Purânic invention, absent in Occultism. (TG).

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Shortly: From tiryak “crooked ”, and srotas (digestive) “canal”. The name of the “creation” by Brahmâ...