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Shringataka, four marmas formed where the four kinds of pure vessels that nourish the tongue, nose, ears and eyes meet; a blow there causes immediate death.

The four shringataka marmas, junctions of the vessels that nourish the tongue, nose, ears and eyes, kill at once; adhipati, inside the top of the head at the hair whorl, kills quickly.

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…