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Nabhi marma is the navel, formed of vessels between the stomach (amashaya) and the intestine (pakvashaya); a wound there causes immediate death.

Announces the marmas of the abdomen and chest; guda (the anus), basti (the bladder) and nabhi (the navel) each cause immediate death when wounded.

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

Urvi marma lies in the middle of the thigh; piercing it causes bleeding and so swelling of the thigh (the verse adds wasting).

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…