The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c11.15

c11.15

First of all, there is at least one theory whose permanence can be observed by us and it is an essential theory, namely that of breaths. It appears constantly across the entire literature of Upaniṣads which goes in its origins to the Brāhmaṇas and comes right into the classical period. We have already seen references to breaths in the principal and the oldest Upaniṣads.