The Classical Doctrine of Indian Medicine: Its Origins and its Greek Parallels c12.s3.17

c12.s3.17

⁵ Others than him or simply "Life" which is a usual sense of *prāṇaḥ*. G. p. 13, l. 14: *prāṇāvalambana-vacanena tu hṛdayāvalambanamuktam | prāṇānām viśeṣeṇa hṛdayarmasthititvāt*, "by the expression, support of the heart, because the breaths have their seat principally in the vulnerable point of the heart". G. developes thereafter this interpretation, D. takes up a part of this development. Both of them add a quotation *yathā saindhavo'śvaḥ śaṅkumutpātya dhāvati tadvat prāṇa* (G. adds *anilo*). "Just as a horse of Sind runs off having uprooted its peg, similarly the breath (G. the breath of the front) arrested, escapes at the time of death tearing off all the winds". In D. this quotation is introduced.