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the concept of prāṇas as substance is taken, respiration may include it.
Table 7 Various types of Airs in Jaina Canons.
MR/TS
Śantisūri
7
8
Wind
Wind
Wind
Wind
blowing
blowing
blowing
blowing
1. Upwards Upwards Upwards Upwards Leaves, Air Downwards Downwards Downwards Downwards Air, breeze
2.
3.
Whirlwind Whirlwind
Whirlwind
4. Singing air Dense air
Singing air
Whirlwind Singing air Dense air
Singing air Dense air
Air, cloths Air, hand Air, feather
5.
Dense air
6.
Breeze,
Breeze
Breeze
Breeze
Air, mouth
Pure air
7.
8.
UTN
6
9.-16.
17.
18.
19.
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PRJN
19
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Rarefied air Rarefied air Rarefied air
Air from
Air from
mouth
mouth
Air of eight directions
Stormy air
Air, destructive
Wind in Waves
DSV
7
Fan air
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Some properties of air find mention in canons.It has been said that it helps combustion while the whirlwind obstructs it.68 It is inhaled and exhaled by the body. Its mattergic and aggregatal nature can be proved by its obstruction, subjugation and resistance by material objects.69 Bhagavati 70 mentions its property of contraction and expansion. There are many types of micro-organism in air. Their properties have come to be known quite late in Pasteur's time. Airs have kite shape.
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Though air is an aggregate but there is no mention whether it is a mixture or a compound. The canons contain meagre physical or chemical properties about it. Now it is known as one of the many gases, some of them coloured (Chlorine, Nitrogen Peroxide etc.) and many colourless
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