Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1088
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1088
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There are ten Vāyus (winds) in the body. The five Prāṇas called Prāṇa, Apāna, Samāna, Udāna and Vyāna, and the five Vāyus called Nāga, Kūrma, Kṛkala, Devadatta and Dhanañjaya together constitute the ten Vāyus. Prāṇa is the most important Vāyu. This vāyu does the emptying as well as the refilling of the other nine vāyus and thus sustains life. The prāṇavāyu has its existence ever in the chest of living beings and fills the body with air through breathing in, out, coughing etc. It depends on life and it is called Prāṇavāyu as it moves or travels with life.