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Secondary channel
Gandhari
Gāndhārī · गान्धारी
Running just behind ida on the left side of the spine and ending at the left eye. The name is borrowed from the Mahabharata's queen of Gandhara, who blindfolded herself for life on marrying a blind king.
left eye
vision
left side
- Side
- Left
- Ends at
- The left eye
- Carries
- Visual perception and light-based prana
- Runs beside
- Ida
- Variant termination
- The left ear, in some lists
- Group
- One of the eleven secondary nadis
- Sources
- Shiva Samhita, Gheranda Samhita, later commentaries
Where it runs
Gandhari is placed alongside ida, slightly behind it, rising from the region of the base of the spine and terminating at the left eye. Where ida governs the cooling breath, gandhari is given the narrower job of feeding vision on that side.
A minority of sources send it to the left ear instead, which is the sort of disagreement the secondary list is full of.
The name
Gandhari is a woman's name from the Mahabharata: the princess of Gandhara who tied a cloth over her eyes on marrying the blind king Dhritarashtra and never removed it. Reading the channel through the story, which the commentaries occasionally do, makes it the nadi of chosen not-seeing.
Whether that reading is intended or retrofitted is impossible to establish. It is at least memorable, which is how these lists were carried.
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Frequently asked questions
פוסטים אחרונים
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