The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c10.52

c10.52

For example, XI, 5, 24, where the pair *prāṇāpānau* and *vyāna* are declared to have been engendered by the Brahmanic student, mythically transposed into a sort of Cosmic Man. For example, once again and chiefly, VI, 41, which is an ordinary charm for health “for the spirit, the thoughts . . . the *apāna*, the *vyāna*, the *prāṇa* giving much of nourishment¹ . . . where evidently *prāṇa* so qualified is not at all the expiration but, as we have seen, the nourishing breath localised by the *Chāndogya-upaniṣad* in the mouth and which will be known to classical physiology.