The story
- Sanskrit · derived fromशलभ“grasshopper, locust”
- English todaysalabhasana
From Sanskrit शलभ (śalabha, “grasshopper, locust”) + आसन (āsana, “seat, chair; sitting, way of sitting”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
salabhasana
Today it means: The locust pose, a back-bending yoga asana. Full definition →
Sanskrit शलभ