The chief Prana has also an origin. — 277.

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SUTRA II. 4. 8.

श्रेष्ठश्च॥२.४.८॥

śreṣṭhaśca ..2.4.8..

Shresthah, the best, the chief Prana. .. Cha, and.

8. The chief Prana has also an origin. — 277.

COMMENTARY

The chief Prana originates like Akasha and the rest, because the above text of the Mundaka Upanishad distinctly uses the word ‘Jayate Pranah’, the chief Prana is born. Moreover, having regard to the promissory statement of the Mundaka Upanishad ‘He created all this’, we must infer that Prana also is created by the Lord, otherwise the general proposition ‘He created all this’ would not be accurate. This being the case, the texts that declare the chief Prana is not created are to be interpreted in a metaphorical way. The chief Prana is called the best, because it is the cause of the maintenance of the body. The going out of the chief breath is followed by the decomposition of the body.

The separation of this Sutra from the last is in order to carry the Anuvritti of the word «chief Prana» into the next Sutra. The word ‘chief Prana’ is to be supplied in that Sutra in order to complete the sense, and not the word ‘Anavashcha’. The next Sutra refers to the chief Prana and not to the Pranas in general. Had the present Sutra and the preceding Sutra 7 been enunciated as one Sutra, it would not have been possible to read the Anuvritti of the chief Prana alone into the next Sutra.

Adhikarana V — The chief Prana is not air

The author now examines the essential nature of the chief Prana.

Doubt: Is this chief Prana nothing else but air or is it the vibration of air, one of the activities of air or is it air that has assumed some special condition on account of its having entered the animal body?

Purvapaksha: The Purvapakshin maintains that the chief Prana is nothing but external air, because the Brihadaranyaka Shruti (III., 1. 5.) declares:

That which is the Prana that is verily the air. The full text is given below:

Yajnavalkya said: «By the Udgatri priest, who is Vayu (the wind), who is the breath. For the breath is the Udgatri of the sacrifice, and the breath is the wind, and he is the Udgatri. This constitutes freedom and perfect freedom».

Or the mere air may not be called Prana, but that particular modification of air which performs the function of respiration in animal bodies is Prana. Thus Prana is either air, pure and simple, or it is that particular motion of air which we find in inhalation and exhalation, for Prana is not applied generally to mere air.

Siddhanta: To this Purvapaksha, the next Sutra supplies the answer.

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