Page 417 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

base of the skull, presents a well-marked swelling, called the ganglion of the root of the Vagus (jugular ganglion). This ganglion sends a branch to the carotid plexus which is situated at the base of the skull and is known as the taluka chakra.*
After its emergence from the jugular foramen, it presents another swelling called the ganglion of the trunk of the Vagus (ganglion nodosum) from this the Vagus nerve passes along the spinal column vertically down through the neck, chest and abdomen where it ends into a plexus and forms connections with the solar plexus. In its journey downwards and before it ends, it sends branches to the prevertebral plexuses of the sympathetic portion of the autonomic nervous system. In the neck, it sends a branch to the pharyngeal plexus, i.e., Visuddha Chakra; in the thorax it sends branches to the deep and the superficial cardiac plexus i.e., Anahata Chakra; in the abdomen it forms connections with the plexus of the coeliac axis i.e., Manipuraka chakra and then ends in a plexus known as the solar plexus i.e. Kundalini chakra which is the downward extension of the Manipuraka chakra. The Vagus also supplies branches to the renal, hepatic, splenic, and pancreatic plexuses."**
*Yoga Raja up. Mentions that the taluka chakra is just below the Ajna at the root of the palate as its name signifies.
**Mysterious Kundalini pp.46-47 and the plan and origin of the Vagus nerve P.248. See also the frontispiece of that work.
This then is the general outline of his theory of Kundalini. One single nerve vagus embraces all the plexuses and controls all the plexuses and therefore the organs to which they send nerve fibres.
More interesting than this is his appendix which gives us his complete view with regard to the nerves and pranas.
The Prana is a centre and vayu is an impulse. The Samana Prana is identified with the subsidiary nerve centre in the thoracicolumbar region regulating the activities of the solar plexus; Udanaprana with the subsidiary nerve centre in the cervical region of the spinal cord. And the Udana vayu is identified with the afferent nerve impulse along the spinal cord. Vyana