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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"/>
 
In the [[Shaiva Siddhanta]] school of Hinduism, pasha is part of the trinity Pati-pashu-pasha, meaning "Master, animal, [[Tethering|tether]]bondage", 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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