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A variety of explanations of the names of yoga asanas have been proposed. Suppes (1971) cited a text containing a classical yoga teaching by Patanjali, where asanas are described as "a set of positions relative to particular places and the parts of the body"[81] - in that case, names like Postures of Mountain, Contact, and Plow are posited to record the practitioner's location and anatomical relationship to the poses. Donovan (1983) discussed the possibility that names are not fixed, and might reflect the shared intentions of a practising group, or are limited to an initial context and might expand over time; her example is Kurmasana, an indigenous Andean pose, and her main explanation for the similarities of names is a common intention to "protect" the body from injury.[82] Liodakis proposed that some names take root only later, when groups learned from each other; for instance, he suggested that katasana (chair pose) came from Kathasutra ("Bible of Yoga") which in turn derives from the same root as the name for a posture in the "Jñavindrayoga", with Cula-phala-karana meaning "erect spine".[83] In 2012, the name for Headstand, Sirsasana, was described as a plural noun formed from Sirs, a shortened form of Sirsasana ("head stands"),[84] although if this is so, the name must be pre-Patanjali; Plow-posture was described as a "sentence formed by joining two compound nouns, namely, kati and upasana" in other work.[85]
The asanas are also described by other names - some more specific, some more generalising. Iyengar's famous name for the highest of the standing poses is Pada Hastasana ("Foot Pose"). In his yoga charts, Ahirsa Archanasana ("Leg Stretching Pose") and Uttanasana ("Standing Posture") are popularly called "cat to mouse" and "frog on the wall", respectively. Kizhi Rao writes: "when I was a child,...I used to shout 'Stand up, you are sitting on your head!'". d2c66b5586