LalithA SahasranAma [783] prAnadA

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prAnadA : Giver of life.

 

PrAna, the five kinds of vital breath or the eleven senses, dA [lit

to destroy] to control. In the Ved-sUtra [i, 1. 23], "for the same

reason breath is Brahman," it is declared that the word "breath" of

the Kausitaki Up, denotes Brahman. [The passage is as follows :] "I am

prAna. I am consciousness, worship me as age and immortality".

 

 

 

 

BhAskararAya's Commentary

Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.

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She is the Giver of Life, or of the Five Life-Breaths [i.e. prana,

udana, samana, apana and vyana; see

http://www.dhanvantri.com/Ayurveda_Prana.htm].

 

- Dr. C. Suryanarayana Murthy, Commentary on the Sri Lalita

Sahasranama, 1962

 

 

 

, "NMadasamy"

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> prAnadA : Giver of life.

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> PrAna, the five kinds of vital breath or the eleven senses, dA

[lit

> to destroy] to control. In the Ved-sUtra [i, 1. 23], "for the same

> reason breath is Brahman," it is declared that the word "breath"

of

> the Kausitaki Up, denotes Brahman. [The passage is as

follows :] "I am

> prAna. I am consciousness, worship me as age and immortality".

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> BhAskararAya's Commentary

> Translated into English by R. Ananthakrishna Sastry.

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