vāyu
“vital airs”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Vāyu the deity
Apāna · Devadatta · Dhanañjaya · Kūrma · Kṛkara · Nāga · Prāṇa · Samāna · Udāna · Vyāna
in the texts
Tarkasaṃgraha
Substance possessing touch without colour; its sense-organ is touch; vital breath (prāṇa) is air moving within the body.
The air that moves within the body is the vital breath (prāṇa);
Vrhaspatitattva
The ten vital airs (Prāṇa, Apāna, Samāna, Udāna, Vyāna, Nāga, Kūrma, Kṛkara, Devadatta, Dhanañjaya) that fill the nāḍīs and perform distinct bodily functions, binding the soul to the body.
Prāṇa, Apāna, Samāna, Udāna, Vyāna, Nāga, Kūrma, Kṛkara, Devadatta, and Dhanañjaya.
> These ten principal *nāḍīs* are remembered as the carriers of the vital airs.
> Prāṇa is in the mouth, Apāna is below, Samāna is established in the heart.