Talk:Sasakasana

Rabbit or moon?
शशाङ्क śaśāñka means moon and शशक śaśaka means rabbit. It doesn't seem either translation matches with this spelling (śasāṇga). The question becomes this: is this really rabbit pose as Bikram calls it, or is it meant to be moon pose (not to be confused with ardha chandrasana)? Or are both of these translations incorrect? Is it possible there is a sandhi rule that would turn the 'k' into a 'g'? Or is it possible this is a copy error since 'ñ' can be transliterated as 'ng' and the letters 'ś','ṣ' and 's' in sanskrit get swapped by accident sometimes? 84.235.4.130's version as crescent moon pose seems more logical as it is a closer match to this spelling, and changing the name would make sense in English because we don't have as many synonyms for moon as sanskrit (and Bikram tends to invent new English names anyways). When I google शशाङ्कासन I get 1 result When I google शशकासन I get 1,430 results and googling the spelling from this page शसांगासना gets 324 results, many of which are quoting from this page (not surprising since the word āsana is spelled incorrectly, but remove the extra 'a' and you get 0 results). This would seem to suggest that it is in fact rabbit pose but simply misspelled on this page (and by everyone who used wikipedia to check their sanskrit). On that basis I am going to change the sanskrit, IAST and etymology section to all match this conclusion.Iṣṭa Devata (talk) 23:16, 30 April 2015 (UTC)