[Sanskrit]

praná

1. life-energy; life; the breath of life. 2. the five pranas: the five workings of the life-force: [prana (see definition 3 below), apana, vyana, samana, udana]. 3. [one of the five pranas]: it moves in the upper part of the body and is pre-eminently the breath of life, because it brings the universal force into the physical system and gives it there to be distributed.