Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.19

prāṇāyāmena saḿyamya

mano varṣa-śataḿ muniḥ

atiṣṭhad eka-pādena

nirdvandvo 'nila-bhojanaḥ

SYNONYMS

prāṇāyāmena — by practice of the breathing exercise; saḿyamya — controlling; manaḥ — mind; varṣa-śatam — one hundred years; muniḥ — the great sage; atiṣṭhat — remained there; eka-pādena — standing on one leg; nirdvandvaḥ — without duality; anila — air; bhojanaḥ — eating.

TRANSLATION

There the great sage concentrated his mind by the yogic breathing exercises, and thereby controlling all attachment, he remained standing on one leg only, eating nothing but air, and stood there on one leg for one hundred years.

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