History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c94.267

v7.c94.267

It should be noticed that neither Patañjali nor the Vyāsa-bhāṣya employs the well-known words, *pūraka*, *recaka* and *kumbhaka*, but only *śvāsa*, *praśvāsa* and *gativiccheda*.²³⁶² Besides, Patañjali and Vyāsa say nothing about the japa of Om, Gāyatrī or Vyāhṛtis in prāṇāyāma, as the smṛtis and later medieval works do. A third matter to be considered is that in some later works *recaka*, *pūraka* and *kumbhaka* are said to be three prāṇāyāmas and this latter is said to be of four kinds, three set out in Y. S. II. 50 and the fourth in II 51.