The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c10.32
The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c10.32
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⁴ For a long time the translators have indifferently given the sense of "inspiration and expiration" to *prāṇa* and *apāna*. Caland has maintained (Zur exegese und Kritik der rituellen Sūtras XXXIV., *Prāṇa und apāna* in ZDMG, Vol. LV, 1901, pp. 261 ff. and vol. LVI, 1902, p. 556) that originally *prāṇa* was expiration and *apāna* inspiration.