The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c10.22

c10.22

¹ *antāś carati rocanāsyá prāṇād apānatī*—RV., X, 189, 2 . . . "Sound" is in the masculine; it can, therefore, stand for the breath of the Sun, because of whom the brilliant one (the Dawn) progresses while breathing.