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On the Stamp
A figure lying face down with chest raised, arms straight on a plain coloured ground, with its name in Hindi and English, on a ₹2 stamp.
Bhujangasana
India Post issued four stamps on 30 December 1991 as Yogasanas, at ₹2, ₹5, ₹6.50 and ₹10. Bhujangasana, the cobra pose, is a back bend named from the Sanskrit bhujanga, snake, for its likeness to a snake with its head raised. It is described in the seventeenth-century hatha yoga text the Gheranda Samhita. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.
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