paryaMkaH 1 A bed, couch, sofa. 2 A palanquin. 3 A cloth girt round the back, loins, and kness (by a person) when sitting on his hams; cf. avasakTikA . 4 A particular kind of posture practised by ascetics in meditation, sitting on the hams; it is the same as vIrAsana which is thus defined by Vasiṣṭha: — ekaM pAdamaTEkasmin vinyasyorO tu saMsTitaM . itarasmiMsvaTEvoruM vIrAsanamuda hftaM .. ; paryaMkagraMTibaMDa &c. Mk. 1. 1. Comp. — baMDaH sitting ( pb ) on the hams, the posture called paryaMkaH paryaMkabaMDasTirapUrvakAyaM Ku. 3. 45 , 59. — Bogin m. a kind of serpent.