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Hridaya marma is the heart, lying in the chest between the breasts at the upper opening of the stomach and described as the chief means of moving the blood; a wound there causes death at…

Talahridaya marma lies in the middle of the sole in line with the middle toe; piercing it causes pain and death.

Kshipra, between the big toe and the next toe, brings akshepaka and death when pierced; talahridaya, in the middle of the sole in line with the middle toe, brings pain and death.

Hridaya, between the breasts, kills at once when wounded; stanamula, two fingers below the nipples, kills through kapha filling the trunk; stanarohita, two fingers above them, through blood…

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

Nineteen marmas (eight neck vessels, guda, hridaya, basti, nabhi, adhipati, two shankha and four shringataka) kill at once; twenty-nine (eight of the chest, four talahridaya, four…