English meaning of aasan

Noun

• seat, place for sitting
• posture or mode of sitting, sleeping or standing
• seat of grass, cloth, skin, etc
• square or column in ruled or printed form
• any one of the 84 postures in yoga or in amorous sport
• book rest (to place a book upon while reading it)
• matter deposited by insects (flies, etc.), spawn
• kind of medicinal plant, withania somnifra