What are "source" and "destination" parameters in MPI_Cart_shift?

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Here it is written that the output parameters of MPI_Cart_shift are ranks of the source and destination processes. However, in this tutorial (code below) what is returned as the source process is later used in MPI_Isend to send messages. Anyone can clear it up - what actually "source" and "destination" mean?

#include "mpi.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#define SIZE 16
#define UP    0
#define DOWN  1
#define LEFT  2
#define RIGHT 3

int main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];  {
int numtasks, rank, source, dest, outbuf, i, tag=1, 
   inbuf[4]={MPI_PROC_NULL,MPI_PROC_NULL,MPI_PROC_NULL,MPI_PROC_NULL,}, 
   nbrs[4], dims[2]={4,4}, 
   periods[2]={0,0}, reorder=0, coords[2];

MPI_Request reqs[8];
MPI_Status stats[8];
MPI_Comm cartcomm;

MPI_Init(&argc,&argv);
MPI_Comm_size(MPI_COMM_WORLD, &numtasks);

if (numtasks == SIZE) {
  MPI_Cart_create(MPI_COMM_WORLD, 2, dims, periods, reorder, &cartcomm);
  MPI_Comm_rank(cartcomm, &rank);
  MPI_Cart_coords(cartcomm, rank, 2, coords);
  MPI_Cart_shift(cartcomm, 0, 1, &nbrs[UP], &nbrs[DOWN]);
  MPI_Cart_shift(cartcomm, 1, 1, &nbrs[LEFT], &nbrs[RIGHT]);

  printf("rank= %d coords= %d %d  neighbors(u,d,l,r)= %d %d %d %d\n",
         rank,coords[0],coords[1],nbrs[UP],nbrs[DOWN],nbrs[LEFT],
         nbrs[RIGHT]);

  outbuf = rank;

  for (i=0; i<4; i++) {
     dest = nbrs[i];
     source = nbrs[i];
     MPI_Isend(&outbuf, 1, MPI_INT, dest, tag, 
               MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqs[i]);
     MPI_Irecv(&inbuf[i], 1, MPI_INT, source, tag, 
               MPI_COMM_WORLD, &reqs[i+4]);
     }

  MPI_Waitall(8, reqs, stats);

  printf("rank= %d                  inbuf(u,d,l,r)= %d %d %d %d\n",
         rank,inbuf[UP],inbuf[DOWN],inbuf[LEFT],inbuf[RIGHT]);  }
else
  printf("Must specify %d processors. Terminating.\n",SIZE);

MPI_Finalize();
}
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