Annamaya

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By Jit Majumdar


  1. full of food, embodying physical matter.
  2. embodiment of properity, plentitude, health.
  3. in Vedantic Philosophy, the outermost of the five koşas or "sheaths", the sheath of the physical body of flesh, named from the fact that it is nourished by food (anna).

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