Talk:Sukhasana

Photo looks wrong


The image,, showing a person with one ankle on the floor and one ankle on their leg, does not match the text’s description (standard cross-legged = both ankles on the floor, and this is also easiest on the knees), and appears to be misnamed. It looks like siddhasana, so I have moved the image there.

I have raised this concern at commons:Image talk:Sukkasana.jpg – perhaps it should be discussed there.
 * Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 22:05, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Current image is inadequate. Doesn't show legs at all. Sadsaque (talk) 01:17, 12 April 2017 (UTC)

pronunciation "soo-kah-sah-na" (bogus or just plain wrong?) & IPA workings
soo-kah-sah-na? um... thanks to this, I've just started looking into Sanskrit, pretty cool language, easy to understand too. seeing as how this pronunciation comes from an "idiots guide" I figured I might as well point out that this pronunciation is, perhaps, a bit... not good enough? even crappy, maybe?

BELIEVE IT OR NOT 'sukhasana' is actually a compound word. See, it's an asana. furthermore, 'sukh-asana' STILL doesn't seem good enough. So, let's break this down.

सुखासन

सु (स Sibilant with उ diacritic) SUE, खा (ख् Guttural with अ diacritic) KAH-AH, स SUH, न Palatal NYA

I think the thing that is going to make this hardest for English speakers to understand is NOT KNOWING that eastern languages tend to use vowels instead of spaces. i.e. खा so, although I'd really really really like it if the idiots guide was right, I'm seriously not about to trust an IDIOTS guide. Close enough? Eh... not in my book. maybe sue kha ah sun ya would be more accurate but I'm still not sure if it's good enough to start hunting down the proper IPA characters. I've been using these sites for this research. tilakpyle.com/sanskrit_alphabet.htm has audio pronunciations omniglot.com/writing/sanskrit.htm has copy-able characters — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lawstubes (talk • contribs) 17:07, 25 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your feedback. Currently, the idiots guide is the only source we have.  Thus we can only use it as our guide to transcription.  If you have other sources, please edit the article to include those sources.  We can transcribe the pronunciations to what these sources say and possibly remove the idiots guide if the other sources are superior.Curb Chain (talk) 23:25, 25 November 2012 (UTC)