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Ani marma lies three finger-breadths above the knee on both sides; a wound there causes pain, stiffness of the thigh and increasing swelling.

The person dies at once; he lives while the dart stays in, or if it falls out by itself after suppuration.

Sthapani, a single marma between the two eyebrows; a blow there has the same outcome as at utkshepaka.

Manibandha marma, the wrist, stands in the arm in place of gulpha in the leg; its injury gives the same signs as gulpha.

Ani, three finger-breadths above the knee, gives pain, thigh stiffness and spreading swelling when wounded; urvi, in the middle of the thigh, gives bleeding and swelling of the thigh.

Shankha, between brow-tail, forehead and ear, kills at once; avarta, above the brows, destroys the eyes; with a dart in utkshepaka (at the hairline above shankha) or sthapani (between the…

Two marmas lie between the neck and the shoulder, named krakanyamsaka in the commentary under the heading of the amsa marmas; a blow there stiffens the head, shoulder, arm and back.

The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.

The body is said to have 107 vital points (marma).

Utkshepaka and sthapani kill when the lodged dart is drawn out; forty-eight marmas, from janu and urvi to krikatika and katikataruna, cause disability; eight (four kurchashira, two…

Nila marmas lie on the arteries (dhamani) beside the throat, one on each side among the four throat marmas; a blow there causes muteness, change of voice, loss of taste and death.

Patients with grave marma involvement, pains that vanish suddenly without treatment, changed nature, black teeth, black hard tongue and lips, stiff, sunken, red or protruding eyes,…

The sages are said to name eight seats of disease: skin, vessels (sira), bone, joints, arteries (dhamani), the abdominal organs such as stomach, intestines, liver and spleen, vital points…