^277:3 I keep to the usual translation of Samana by on-breathing, though it is here explained in a different sense. Samana is here supposed to be between prana and apana, and to distribute the food equally, samam, over the body. The seven lights are explained as the two eyes, the two ears, the two nostrils, and the mouth.

^277:4 Here the Lingatma or Givatma.

^277:5 A hundred times 101 would give us 10,100, and each multiplied by 72,000 would give us a sum total of 727,200,000 veins, or, if we add the principal veins, 727,210,201. Anandagiri makes the sum total, 72 kotis, 72 lakshas, six thousands, two hundred and one, where the six of the thousands seems to be a mistake for dasasahasram. In the Brihadar. Upanishad II, 1, 19, we read of 72,000 arteries, likewise in Yagnavalkya III, 108. See also Brih. Up. IV, 3, 20; Khand. Up. VI, 5, 3, comm.; Kaush. Up. IV, 20; Katha Up. VI, 16.

^278:1 Without the sun the eye could not see.

^278:2 With Udana, the out-breathing

^278:3 This refers to the questions asked in verse 1, and answered in the verses which follow.

^278:4 The adhyatma, as opposed to the vahya, mentioned in verse 1. Ayati instead of ayati is explained by khandasam hrasvatvam.