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# Hindu Medicine c8.125

Hindu Medicine c8.125

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### [c8.125](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.125)

According to the Hindu concept, the wind, “blowing forward,” may be visualized as a sort of invisible tongue or column of a subtle airy substance. Attached to the inside of the mouth, it rhythmically slips through the lips, a ribbon alternately coiling and uncoiling, or protruding and withdrawing, curling in upon itself like the tongue of a chameleon.

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