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Secondary channel
Alambusha
Alambuṣā · अलम्बुषा
A channel that ends at the mouth in most lists and at the anus in others. The two readings put it at opposite ends of the body, which makes it the clearest example of how loosely the secondary list was fixed.
mouth
speech
variation
- Ends at
- The mouth
- Variant termination
- The navel and abdomen, in a third reading
- Associated with
- Taking in and putting out
- Related centre
- Throat chakra
- Group
- One of the eleven secondary nadis
- Sources
- Shiva Samhita, Gheranda Samhita, later commentaries
Two readings
The Shiva Samhita and the Gheranda Samhita both name alambusha, and their commentators send it in opposite directions. In one tradition it rises to the mouth and is grouped with saraswati as a channel of speech and taste. In the other it descends and belongs with shankhini and kuhu.
One way to hold both is to notice that the mouth and the anus are the two ends of the same tube, and that a channel described as running between them would satisfy both descriptions. The texts do not say this, but the commentators have.
A third group of sources, including the tables that circulate from the Shandilya Upanishad, put alambusha at the navel and abdomen and give it a share of digestive and core function. Three readings for one channel is unusual even here.
In practice
Alambusha is not a target of concentration. It appears in the list, gets a termination, and does its work through the practices aimed at the throat and the lower body.
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