The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c10.35

c10.35

² *prāṇapānáu vrīhi-yaváu anaḍvān prāṇa ucyate.* *yáve ha prāṇá áhito’ pāṇó vrihir ucyate* //13// AV., XI, 4, 13. The assimilation of *prāṇa* and of the Cosmic Bull is apparently explicable by the fact that both of them are in turns the centre of the pantheistic speculations, familar in the *Ṛgveda*.