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	The [[Sanskrit]] word "pasha" originally meant "knot" or "loop".<ref name="Guénon2004"/> In general usage, the pasha is used to bind a foe's arms and legs or for hunting animals.<ref name="Guénon2004">{{cite book\|author=René Guénon\|title=Symbols of Sacred Science\|year=2004\|publisher=Sophia Perennis\|isbn=978-0-900588-77-8\|pages=328–330}}</ref><ref name = "Rao"/> Pasha represents worldly attachment as well as power of a deity to capture and bind evil and ignorance.<ref name="Jansen1993"/> [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] explores the connection of pasha to worldly bonds.<ref name="Guénon2004"/>		The [[Sanskrit]] word "pasha" originally meant "knot" or "loop".<ref name="Guénon2004"/> In general usage, the pasha is used to bind a foe's arms and legs or for hunting animals.<ref name="Guénon2004">{{cite book\|author=René Guénon\|title=Symbols of Sacred Science\|year=2004\|publisher=Sophia Perennis\|isbn=978-0-900588-77-8\|pages=328–330}}</ref><ref name = "Rao"/> Pasha represents worldly attachment as well as power of a deity to capture and bind evil and ignorance.<ref name="Jansen1993"/> [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] explores the connection of pasha to worldly bonds.<ref name="Guénon2004"/>

	In the [[Shaiva Siddhanta]] school of Hinduism, pasha is part of the trinity Pati-pashu-pasha, meaning "Master, animal, ~~[[Tethering\|~~tether]]", symbolizing God, man and world. Pati is God as [[Shiva]], the patron god of the sect. Pashu is the soul or man. Pasha is the power by which Shiva leads souls to the Truth or the power of his [[maya (illusion)\|maya]] (illusion) by which he entices "unenlightened" beings.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002"/><ref name="Subramuniya(Master.)2000">{{cite book\|author1=Subramuniya\|author2=Subramuniya (Master.)\|title=Loving Ganeśa: Hinduism's Endearing Elephant-faced God\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_sV4_JpQvycC&pg=PA508\|year=2000\|publisher=Himalayan Academy Publications\|isbn=978-1-934145-17-3\|page=508}}</ref>		In the [[Shaiva Siddhanta]] school of Hinduism, pasha is part of the trinity Pati-pashu-pasha, meaning "Master, animal, tether", symbolizing God, man and world. Pati is God as [[Shiva]], the patron god of the sect. Pashu is the soul or man. Pasha is the power by which Shiva leads souls to the Truth or the power of his [[maya (illusion)\|maya]] (illusion) by which he entices "unenlightened" beings.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002"/><ref name="Subramuniya(Master.)2000">{{cite book\|author1=Subramuniya\|author2=Subramuniya (Master.)\|title=Loving Ganeśa: Hinduism's Endearing Elephant-faced God\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_sV4_JpQvycC&pg=PA508\|year=2000\|publisher=Himalayan Academy Publications\|isbn=978-1-934145-17-3\|page=508}}</ref>

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{{short description|Hindu supernatural weapon}}
[[File:Pasha Ganesha.jpg|thumb|Pasha as a noose in the hands of Ganesha]]
'''Pasha''' ({{IAST|Pāśa}}), often translated as "[[noose]]" or "lasso", is a [[Astra (weapon)|supernatural weapon]] depicted in [[Hindu iconography]]. Hindu deities such as [[Ganesha]], [[Yama]] and [[Varuna]] are depicted with the pasha in their hands.

Pasha is a common attribute of Ganesha,<ref name="Jansen1993">{{cite book|author=Eva Rudy Jansen|title=The Book of Hindu Imagery: Gods, Manifestations and Their Meaning|year=1993|publisher=Binkey Kok Publications|isbn=978-90-74597-07-4}}</ref> the Lord of removing obstacles; a pasha represents his power to bind and free obstacles. Yama, the god of death, uses the Pasha to extract a soul from a being's body at the time of death.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002">{{cite encyclopedia|author=James G. Lochtefeld|title=Pasha|encyclopedia=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: N–Z|year=2002|publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-8239-3180-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/505 505]|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/505}}</ref> In sculpture, it is depicted as two or three bound into one or a double loop.<ref name = "Rao">{{cite book|last=Rao|first=T. A. Gopinatha|title=Elements of Hindu iconography |volume=1: Part I|year=1914|publisher=Law Printing House|location=Madras|page=8}}</ref>

The [[Sanskrit]] word "pasha" originally meant "knot" or "loop".<ref name="Guénon2004"/> In general usage, the pasha is used to bind a foe's arms and legs or for hunting animals.<ref name="Guénon2004">{{cite book|author=René Guénon|title=Symbols of Sacred Science|year=2004|publisher=Sophia Perennis|isbn=978-0-900588-77-8|pages=328–330}}</ref><ref name = "Rao"/> Pasha represents worldly attachment as well as power of a deity to capture and bind evil and ignorance.<ref name="Jansen1993"/> [[Ananda Coomaraswamy]] explores the connection of pasha to worldly bonds.<ref name="Guénon2004"/>

In the [[Shaiva Siddhanta]] school of Hinduism, pasha is part of the trinity Pati-pashu-pasha, meaning "Master, animal, [[Tethering|tether]]", symbolizing God, man and world. Pati is God as [[Shiva]], the patron god of the sect. Pashu is the soul or man. Pasha is the power by which Shiva leads souls to the Truth or the power of his [[maya (illusion)|maya]] (illusion) by which he entices "unenlightened" beings.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002"/><ref name="Subramuniya(Master.)2000">{{cite book|author1=Subramuniya|author2=Subramuniya (Master.)|title=Loving Ganeśa: Hinduism's Endearing Elephant-faced God|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_sV4_JpQvycC&pg=PA508|year=2000|publisher=Himalayan Academy Publications|isbn=978-1-934145-17-3|page=508}}</ref>

==Illustrations==
<gallery>
File:Thajavur Ganesha.jpg|Ganesha
File:Yama on buffalo.jpg|Yama
File:Varunadeva.jpg|Varuna holding a pasha in the form of a snake
</gallery>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Ganesha]]
[[Category:Mythological knots]]
[[Category:Hindu symbols]]
[[Category:Weapons in Hindu mythology]]

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