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Simanta, the five great joints of the head, counted as five marmas; a blow there causes mental confusion and madness, and death as well.

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…

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…