kumpakam (p. 123) s. Stopping the breath by shutting the mouth and closing both nostrils with the fingers of the right hand, சுவாசபந்தனம். As a religious exercise among ascetics, it is the power of suspending respiration, thereby securing the attention, as the Hindu metaphysicians think, to the contemplation of divine and super-human things. Wils. p. 231. KUMBHAKA. 2. A native arsenic, தொட்டிப்பா ஷாணம். 3. Another kind of arsenic, சா லாங்கபாஷாணம். 24) *

kumpi (p. 123) க்கிறேன், த்தேன், ப்பேன், க்க, v. a. To suppress the breath, to suspend the respiration--as a yogi. See கும்பகம். 38)