directions from a center, representing his influence and power. The iconography popular in representing the chakras, according to David Gordon White, traces back to the five symbols of yajna, the Vedic fire altar: "square, circle, triangle, half moon and dumpling".

The hymn 10.136 of the Rigveda mentions a renunciate yogi with a female named kunannama. Literally, it means "she who is bent, coiled", representing both a minor goddess