The Positive Sciences of the Ancient Hindus c4.s1.t2.35

c4.s1.t2.35

2. Váyu. Various substances composed of di-Tanmátric atoms—kinds of Váyu—must have been formed in the gaseous envelope, in the second stage of cosmic evolution, out of the proto-atoms of Ákása; but they have either suffered a fresh transformation into substances of a more complex atomic structure, or have dissipated into the mono-Tanmátric Ákása, out of which they took their rise. The one familiar example now surviving is atmospheric air. Water-vapour (बाष्प) is but water (Ap), and smoke, fumes, etc., but earth-particles in gaseous diffusion.