This asana, or pose, is dedicated to the Sage - Visvamitra. Visvamitra is said to have been a friend of everyone. He spent his life achieving Brahmarsi: a Brahmanical Sage after losing a battle over a female to Vasistha.
Visvamitra is one of the Seven Wise Ones, sons born-of-the-mind of Brahma. He is part of the seven stars of the Great Bear and a major contributor to the Vedic hymns. The hymns as they were passed down became stories later. When they were being communicated to the Seven Wise Ones it is unclear whether they gave birth to the gods or were born of the gods - or both. What was clear is that they were hidden in the non-existent before existence existed. "And what was there in the nonexistent? Before the object there was an image. A breath before there was flesh to animate. Desire before there was a body."
"The secret of existence was implicit in just a few actions common to all: waking, breathing, sleeping, coitus. They saw the metaphyscial in the physiological."
Taken from Ka by Roberto Calasso & Light on Yoga by B.K.S. Iyengar.
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