A Corpus of Indian studies, Gaurinath Bhattacharyya Shastri, Arthur Llewellyn Basham, Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1980, ... The terms mahaprana and alpaprana here can only be tatpurusa (karmadhdraya) compounds (lit. 'great breath', 'little breath') which refer to properties of aspirated and unaspirated sounds ...
