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Organअंग

Blood and circulation

रक्त और रक्त संचार · रक्त

Extracted from the text3 references

Built from passages of the source by the curated extraction. Pending human review.

Names and synonyms

Sanskrit
रक्तरुधिरशोणितअसृज्असृक्सिराधमनी
Hindi
रक्त संचाररक्तखूनलहूनसेंधमनी
English
Blood and circulationbloodcirculationblood vesselsveinsarteriesvascular
Romanized
raktarudhirashonitakhoon

What the text says

Each statement reports the source, with its chapter, page and verse. Traditional descriptions are not presented as proven medical facts.

Anatomy4

  • The commentary counts seven hundred veins (sirā).

    Chapter 3 · p. 26 · v. 2Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • Twenty vessels (dhamanī, glossed as nāḍī) go up and down from the navel, ten upward and ten downward, and four run crosswise, so there are twenty-four in all.

    Chapter 3 · p. 26 · v. 3Hindi commentaryTraditional description
  • A footnote cites the Suśruta Saṃhitā for twenty-four vessels arising from the navel (ten upward, ten downward, four crosswise) and says the verse's 'all around' should here be taken as up and down only, since the author names the four crosswise vessels separately.

    Chapter 3 · p. 26 · v. 3FootnoteTraditional description
  • The verse gives the blood in the body as half an āḍhaka (a footnote gives one āḍhaka as 256 tolā).

    Chapter 3 · p. 27 · v. 7Sanskrit verseTraditional description

Where else is this mentioned?

Named 296 times on 151 pages. These are automatic name matches, so a few may refer to something else with the same name.

Questions and answers

What counts of bones, joints, sinews, veins, muscles, vessels and vital points does chapter 3 give, and what does the editor's footnote say about the joints?

300 bones, 300 joints, 900 sinews, 700 veins, 500 muscles, 24 vessels (dhamanī) and 107 vital points. The footnote says the joint count cannot equal the bone count, notes Suśruta's 300 bones and 210 joints, and calls the reading a scribal error.

Detailed answer and sources

All references

Every page and verse of the source that this entry draws on.

Quick facts

Content type
Organ
Categories
Body system
Source pages with records
2
Pages naming it
151
Chapters
Chapter 3
Extraction tasks
T02
Record id
organ_blood_circulation