Description of the body and daily regimen

Opening line of the third chapter, whose running head and colophon name it Sūtravyāvarṇana. It counts the bones, joints, vessels, muscles, vital points, teeth and other parts and measures of the body, then turns to the impurity of the body, recollection of past births, constitution, the land and quality of medicinal plants, the use of medicines, body types and the doshas.