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CHAPTER 1X, 9.
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Devamata said: By which (of the life-winds) is a creature produced? and which (of them) first comes to him? Explain to me also the pairs of the life-winds, which (move) upwards, or downwards, or transversely.
Nárada said: Pleasure is produced from a mental operation', and (it) is also produced from a sound, (it) is also produced from taste, and (it) is also produced from colour, and it is also produced from touch, and (it) is also produced from smell. This is the effect? of the U dåna; the pleasure is produced from union'. From desire the semen is produced ; and from the semen is produced menstrual excretion. The semen and the blood are produced by the Samâna and the Vyana in common. From the combination of the semen and the blood, the Prana comes first into operation; and the semen being developed by the Prana, the Apana then comes into operation. The pair Prâna and Apâna go upwards and downwards, and the Samâna and Vyana are called the pair (moving) transversely. It is the teaching of the
'l.e. desire. "Sound'=recollection of a woman's voice ; 'taste,' scil. of chastity; 'colour'=the beauty of a woman, Arguna Misra. Cr. À pastamba I, 2, 7, 8, and Lalita Vistara, p. 19.
• Literally, form,' which Arguna Misra interprets to mean effect, and adds, 'The Udána causes mental activity, and by mental activity sound &c. are apprehended.'
• I.e. of Udåna and mind, Arguna Misra; adding, the result is that a creature is produced by the Udána.'
• Or, perhaps, generally, that is to say, the store of them, the specific semen being produced from desire, as before stated. The Samåna's function is the digestion of food, and that of the Vyana is the distribution of the digested food to the whole body through the nådis, hence the proposition in the text.
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