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Yogapraxis, P. 169 and ff., Id., Vratya p. 324 et seq.
On the asceticism and the Sramana literature, see biblio-graphic indications faiths L. de la
Vallee-Poussin, Indo-Europiens et Iraniens Indus. L'Inde vers jus-that 300 av. J. C. (new
enlarged edition, Paris, 1936), p. 22q, 378.
He found plenty of material on popular religion in the Vedic era in Arbman Ernest,
Rudra. Clauben und Untersuchungen zum altindischen Kultus (Uppsala, 1922), esp. p. 64
et seq.
On the "societies of men" initiatic structure and ecstatic, the omas of Stig Wikander, Der
Arisch Mannerbiinde (Luns, 1938); id., Vayu. Teste und Untersuchungenzur Indoiranischenfyeligionsgechichte
(Lund, 1941). About ios elements chamalucos, W. Ruben,
Schdmanismus im alten Indien (Orienralia Acta, 17, 1939, p. 164-205) and M. Eliade, Le
shamanism archaïque et les techniques de Vext (Paris, 1951), p. 362-388.
Note III, 2: The five breaths
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Note III, 2: The five breaths
The five "breaths" are "prana, apana, samarium, the udana and vyana. Arthur H. Ewing
made a comprehensive summary of your information in the literature vesica: The Hindu
Conception of the Functions of Breath (Journal of
American Oriental Society, Vol XXII, 2nd part, 1901, p. 249-308). Here's the gist of their
conclusions: the Prana is respiration that drives the top fairy breath, from the navel or
heart, and that includes both the aspiration and the expiration, the apana is a word that has
multiple meanings: the respiration the anus and scrotum, the large intestine, navel, "the
vyana respiration is permeating all parts of the body, the udana com -
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rende both respiration belch as carrying the soul to the ca-eza in the state of samadhi or
death, the Samana is the respiration locali-ised in the abdomen, which claims to ensure
proper digestion.
According to G. W. Brown Prana and Apana (Journal Amer. Orient. Soc XXXIX, 1919,
p. 104-112), prana is the thoracic respiration, the apana the abdominal respiration. Jean