வத்தை

--அவஸ்தை, s. State, situation, age, or position as what belongs to any stage of life; also enjoyments or sufferings from the actions of former births, நிலை; [ex அவ, et ஸ்தா, to stand.] Wils. p. 82. AVASTHA. 2. Agony, வேதனை. 3. End, முடிவு. 4. A physical and intellectual state, the local position of the soul in the body, சாக்கிரம் முதலிய உயிர்நிலையுபாதி. Of these there are five, பஞ்சாவத்தை, Showing the place of the soul in the body and the consequences, viz.: 1. சாக்கிரம், vigilance or the soul in the forehead with all its powers awake and in full force. 2. சொப் பணம், dreaming, the soul situated in the neck and its powers suspended or reduced as in dreaming, &c. 3. சுழுத்தி, entire insensibility, the soul situated in the breast and its powers still more reduced as in deep sleep, fainting, fits, &c. 4. துரியம், the fourth place, the soul sunk to the navel, abstraction of mind, absorption, trance. 5. துரியாதீதம், beyond, the soul having sunk to the மூலாதாரம் or last stage and just about to depart; (in உப. 2, the seven அவத்தை are given.)

அவத்தைப்பிரயோகம், s. One of the sixty-four கலைஞானம், the power of sta tioning the soul at pleasure in any of the five stages--in full energy--by virtue of abstract devotion for converse with the deity. 2. The art of killing by sorcery.

மரணாவத்தை, s. The death agony.