History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.263

v7.c94.263

In connection with prāṇāyāma we must look to Y. S. I. 34 also. That sūtra lays down that for securing the undisturbed calm of the mind one remedy is the expulsion and retention of the breath.²³⁶⁰ It appears from that sūtra and its bhāṣya that *vidhāraṇa* (retention of breath, i. e. Kumbhaka) is prāṇāyāma.