Hindu Medicine c8.124
Hindu Medicine c8.124
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c8.124
The prāṇa, blowing forward, is said to support all the other life-breath forces of the organism. It is “at the head” of the others (mukhya). With a person about to die, its outflow, while it lasts, indicates that some life-force is still left in the body. Man’s last breath, in India as elsewhere, is considered to be an expiration with which the force of life-breath departs from the body, leaving it inanimate.