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Principle
Vital points (marma)
मर्म (मर्म स्थान) · मर्म
The body is said to have 107 vital points (marma).
Topic
Vital points of the limbs
हाथ-पैरों के मर्म · शाखागत मर्मवर्णन
Heading for the vital points (marma) of the four limbs, eleven in each limb and forty-four in all.
Condition
Injury to vital points (marmaghata)
मर्माघात
The wise physician is told to leave aside patients afflicted by pain from injury to the vital points, together with those showing fatal signs, and to treat the remaining patients.
Topic
Close of the fatal signs and promise to describe the vital points
रिष्ट लक्षणों का उपसंहार और मर्म वर्णन की प्रतिज्ञा · रिष्टलक्षण का उपसंहार और मर्म वर्णन प्रतिज्ञा
The wise physician should leave patients showing these death signs and those tormented by injury to vital points, and treat the rest; the signs of the vital points (marma) are described…
Question
What counts of bones, joints, sinews, veins, muscles, vessels and vital points does chapter 3 give, and what does the editor's footnote say about the joints?
तृतीय परिच्छेद में अस्थि, संधि, स्नायु, शिरा, पेशी, धमनी और मर्मों की कितनी संख्या बताई गई है, और पादटिप्पणी में संधियों के विषय में क्या कहा गया है?
300 bones, 300 joints, 900 sinews, 700 veins, 500 muscles, 24 vessels (dhamanī) and 107 vital points. The footnote says the joint count cannot equal the bone count, notes Suśruta's 300…
Topic
Counting the vital points and other features
मर्म आदि की गणना · मर्मादिक की गणना
The body has 107 vital points (marma), nine openings (two eyes, two nostrils, two ears, the mouth, the anus and the genital), eighty lakh hair pores and the three doshas, vāta, pitta and…
Principle
Ayurveda (science of life)
आयुर्वेद
The introduction says no definite time can be given for the origin of Ayurveda, the science of life, because the need for it begins wherever living beings have life; since it is essential…
Principle
Fatal signs (arishta)
अरिष्ट (मरणसूचक लक्षण) · अरिष्टलक्षण
The introduction says the work includes a section on fatal signs (riṣṭādhikāra), full of secrets known through the yoga practice of great sages.
Symptom
Pain (shula)
शूल (दर्द) · शूल
A pricking pain that moves about in the abdomen is given as the brief sign of aggravated vāta.
Condition
Prameha (urinary-metabolic disorders)
प्रमेह
Prameha is the first of the major diseases treated in chapter 11. The text gives its causes (too much heavy, liquid, unctuous and cold food, day sleep, lack of exertion), its prodromes, its…
Condition
Spreading skin inflammation (visarpa)
विसर्प
Visarpa is described as a swelling that spreads quickly over the body, arising from pitta, a wound, vata, kapha or all three doshas, with fever and the signs of its dosha. It is treated…
Condition
Throat swelling with breathlessness (mahalasa)
महालस
A throat swelling from kapha and vata with great pain and severe breathlessness that cuts the vital points; given up as incurable.
Topic
Causes, signs and seats of disease
रोगों के कारण, लक्षण और अधिष्ठान · रोग के कारण लक्षणाधिष्ठान
Names six causes of disease (vata, pitta, kapha, blood, sannipata and injury), five kinds of signs for diseases not caused by injury, and eight seats of disease: skin, vessels, bone,…
Topic
Chapter 3 begins (Sūtravyāvarṇana)
तृतीय परिच्छेद का आरम्भ (सूत्रव्यावर्णन) · अथ तृतीयः परिच्छेदः
Opening line of the third chapter, whose running head and colophon name it Sūtravyāvarṇana. It counts the bones, joints, vessels, muscles, vital points, teeth and other parts and measures…
Topic
Features of mahapralaya and gambhirika hiccup
महाप्रलया और गंभीरिका हिक्का के लक्षण · महाप्रलय व गंभीरिका हिक्का लक्षण
Hiccup that constantly comes with force that greatly afflicts the vital points and shakes the whole body is the great hiccup. Hiccup that arises pressing the navel region, brings fever and…
Topic
Features of urdhva shvasa
ऊर्ध्व श्वास के लक्षण · ऊर्ध्वश्वासलक्षण
Urdhva shvasa is strong upward breathing with piercing pain at the vital points, loss of voice and eyes turned upward; the text attributes this name to the Jinas.
Topic
Incurable signs of visarpa
विसर्प के असाध्य लक्षण · विसर्प का असाध्य लक्षण
Visarpa that has blisters, many kinds of intense pain and severe burning, makes the body very red, black or very yellow, arises from injury to vital points (marma) or comes from all three…
Topic
Promise to describe the actions of medicines and related topics
औषधकर्म आदि के वर्णन की प्रतिज्ञा · भैषज कर्मादि वर्णन प्रतिज्ञा
Sums up the twelve kinds of diet and announces, briefly and following the canon, the fifteen actions of medicines, the ten times for medicine, the variants of cooking ghee and oil, the…
Principle
Seats of disease
रोगों के अधिष्ठान · रोगाधिष्ठान
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…
Topic
Sign of death within three days
तीन दिन में मरण का चिह्न · त्रैरात्रिक मरण चिह्न
When aggravated vata causes needle-like pain in the body and intense pain even in the vital points (marma), and the person is distressed every moment by pain like one stung by a fierce…
Topic
Signs of incurable prameha
प्रमेह के असाध्य लक्षण · प्रमेह असाध्य लक्षण
Prameha patients whose turbid urine flows like fat, ghee or honey or like the rut fluid of an elephant, who have the complications described, boils on the anus, shoulders, heart region,…
Topic
Signs of mahalasa
महालस के लक्षण · महालस लक्षण
From kapha and vata a swelling arises in the throat with great pain and severe breathlessness; this hard-to-cross disease that cuts the vital points is called mahalasa (balasa), and the…
Principle
Ten qualities of poison
विष के दस गुण · विषदशगुण
Poison is said to have ten qualities: dry (rūkṣa), hot (uṣṇa), sharp (tīkṣṇa), quick (āśu), pervasive (vyāpaka or vyavāyī, spreading through the whole body before being digested),…
Topic
What the ten qualities do
दस गुणों के कार्य · दशगुणों के कार्य
Dryness provokes vāta, heat provokes pitta and blood, subtlety lets poison spread through the finest parts of the body, and sharpness breaks the body parts and vital points. Pervasiveness…