Sanskrit manuscript in Devanāgarī

reca रेच – emptying; exhalation

substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Dictionary sources

AYI dictionary substantive masculine

emptying; exhalation

Cappeller 1891 substantive masculine

Original text · English · substantive masculine

reca ·m. ­ °na n. emission of breath.

Monier-Williams 1872 substantive masculine · Word type unspecified

Original text · English · substantive masculine

Reca, as, m. the emptying of the lungs (in the practice of Yoga), emission of breath; (ī), f., N. of a plant (= kampillaka); of another (= aṅkoṭha).

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

reca reca. See p. 852, col. 3.

Petersburger 1855 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

reca (von rica) 1〉 m. im Yoga Entleerung der Brust, das Ausstossen des Athems Verz. d. Oxf. H. 234,b,39. Verz. d. Oxf. H. 237,a, No. 568. AMṚTAN. UP._in_Ind. St. 9,27,3. — 2〉 f. ī Bez. zweier Pflanzen, = kampillaka und aṅkoṭha RĀJAN._im_ŚKDR.

Böhtlingk 1879 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

reca m. im Yoga Entleerung der Brust, das Ausstossen des Athems.

Apte 1890 Word type unspecified

Original text · English · Word type unspecified

reca See recaka.

Cappeller 1887 substantive masculine

Original text · German · substantive masculine

reca m. Ausstoßen des Atems (ph.).

Occurrences in source texts (8)

DYS 3 occurrences
DYS 60–66: Prāṇāyāma 2 occurrences

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DYS 73–78: Kevala Kumbhaka 1 occurrence

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HP 1 occurrence
HP 2.34-2.36: Naulī and Kapālabhātī 1 occurrence

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HTK 4 occurrences
HTK 10.21*2–23*1: Utkarṣa and Apakarṣa 2 occurrences

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HTK 10.34*2–38*1: Asvaṅgaśṛṅkhalā and Kumbhāntaraśṛṅkhalā 2 occurrences

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