The seats of pitta

Pitta resides between the digestive bowel and the stomach, in the heart, and in the liver and spleen, and, carried by vāta, pervades the whole body. A footnote names its five kinds: pācaka between stomach and bowel, which digests food (and so is also called jaṭharāgni) and separates essence from waste; bhrājaka in the skin, which gives lustre; rañjaka in the liver and spleen, which colours the nutrient fluid into blood; ālocaka in the eye, which aids sight; and sādhaka in the heart, which produces intelligence, mental power and self-regard and helps achieve one's aims.