The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c10.46

c10.46

Moreover, one would except that *prāṇa* and *apāna* would not, in the *Atharvaveda*, always designate exhaled air and the inhaled air. As the *prāṇa* or the breath in general of the Cosmic Man is the wind, it is an internal wind because the wind circulates inside the Universe, the body of the Cosmic Giant.