Chapter 4, Verse 29
अपाने जुह्वति प्राण प्राणेऽपानं तथाऽपरे। प्राणापानगती रुद्ध्वा प्राणायामपरायणाः।।4.29।।
apāne juhvati prāṇa prāṇe'pānaṃ tathā'pare। prāṇāpānagatī ruddhvā prāṇāyāmaparāyaṇāḥ॥4.29॥
Word by word
- apāne
- into the outgoing breath (apāna)
- juhvati
- they offer (as oblation)
- prāṇam
- the incoming breath (prāṇa)
- prāṇe
- into the incoming breath (prāṇa)
- apānam
- the outgoing breath (apāna)
- tathā
- likewise
- apare
- others
- prāṇa-apāna-gatī
- the movements/courses of the incoming and outgoing breaths
- ruddhvā
- having restrained/checked
- prāṇāyāma-parāyaṇāḥ
- those devoted to the practice of breath-control (prāṇāyāma)
Commentary
29. Others offer pr&wa (outgoing breath) in apana (incoming breath), and apa-na in pra^a, restraining the passages of pr&wa and apana, absorbed in pr&n&y&ma (restraint of breath).
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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