The Compendium of Kāśyapa 3.6: śarīravicayaśārīrādhyāyaḥ

Kāśyapasaṃhitā (Vṛddhajīvakīyatantra) 3.6

Language: Sanskrit

śarīravicayaśārīrādhyāyaḥ

3.6.p1

dvātriṃśattu matā dantāstāvantyū khalikāni ca

Thirty-two are considered the teeth, and just as many their sockets. / The bones of the fingers and toes are sixty; there are twenty nails. / Twenty are declared to be the rods of the hands and feet. / There are four bases for the rods of the hands and feet. / Two are recorded as the bones of the heels, and four are the brush-like bunches in the feet. / Just two are the wrist-bones, and they say there are four in the forearms. / The knee-bones are counted as two, and four are the bones in the shanks. / Two are the cylindrical bones of the thighs, and two are known as the kneecaps. / Two are the shoulders, two the shoulder-blades, and likewise just two are the collarbones. / Two are the cylindrical bones of the upper arms; and two each are the pelvic bones and the palate-bones. / One is the throat-bone, one the pubic bone; the neck consists of fifteen bones. / The bones of the back, Bhārgava, are forty-five. / Fourteen bones are in the chest, and one should indicate one jawbone. / The wise say there are four plates of the head. / In the side there are twenty-four, and just as many are the sockets; / they say there are twenty-four sockets and caps. / Two are counted as the temples, and two are the joint-bindings at the base of the jaw. / One should indicate one bone each for the forehead, the nose, and the ridge of the cheek. / Such is the count of bones in general; increase and decrease arise from specific causes. / Just ten are said to be the seats of the vital breaths; hear them from me: / the head, then the heart, the bladder, the throat, vital essence, semen, and blood, / the two temples, and the rectum; and among them, the first three are the great vulnerable spots. / The navel, spleen, liver, kloman, heart, kidneys, rectum, and bladder, / the small intestine, and then the large intestine, the stomach, the lower bowel, and the omentum— / these the learned call the visceral organs. Learn from me the minor limbs: / the two eyes, the two nostrils, the two ears, the two breasts, the two lips, the two buttocks, / the two hands, the two feet, the two eyebrows, the two cheek-ridges, the upper arms, shanks, and calves, / the two corners of the mouth, the two pinnae of the ears, the two earlobes, and the two pupils of the eyes, / the two testicles, the two gums, the two temple-regions, and the two sublingual tissues, / the roots behind the teeth—all these one should indicate by twos. / The bladder, the neck of the bladder, the penis, the back together with the chin, and the abdomen, / the forehead, the mouth, the uvula, the head, and the heart: each is single. / In the palms of the hands and soles of the feet there are indeed four hearts, / designated as the hearts of the limbs; the fifth is the seat of consciousness. / Four are the bindings of the eyes; one should know the fingers and toes to be twenty. / Microchannels are said to be of two kinds: minute and large. / One should know the large ones to be nine: two below and seven above. / One should indicate the navel and the hair follicles as the minute microchannels. / From the heart branch out the ten mothers of the vessels: / four vessels run upward, two transversely, and four downward. / Branching again and again, they pervade the body, / like the veins of leaves; and they are called vessels because of their flowing. / Just as a wooden figure bound with grass rope / might be plastered on the outside with clay, so is this thing called the body: / the bones are bound by ligaments, the ligaments are plastered with flesh; / it is constantly nourished by vessels, and all of it is covered with skin. / Continuously extending from the roots of the ears are twice one hundred ducts; / wind, perpetually abiding in them, supports fire and soma above. / Exceeding two hundred thousand are the pores outside and inside; / so many are the hair follicles produced, if counted one by one. / Increase and decrease result from insemination, and by nature from the creator; / know that by nature those of women are deficient by a fourth part. / And in each pore one should recognize a minute opening of a vessel; / when perspiring, one emits sweat through these vessel-openings. / For an embodied being who is born, growing, youthful, or old, / we measure the fluids according to one's own handful. / Marrow, fat, adipose tissue, urine, pitta, kapha, and stool / are recorded as consisting of one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven handfuls respectively. / Eight handfuls are of blood, and nine are of transformed nutrient fluid. / Exactly ten handfuls are declared to be of water situated in the skin; / by that water the bodily tissues, beginning with blood, are nourished. / And in diarrhoea it is passed; from it urine proceeds; / in a wound, lymph, pus, and slime proceed from it. / And when it is corrupted, there occur ringworm, itching, and eczema, / skin diseases, leucoderma, scabies, and loss of hair. / Raised by agni and wind through transformations, that is called sweat. / The measure of vital essence is equal to the measure of kapha. / In the body, there is half a handful of semen, and likewise of brain matter. / All this measure stated is the maximum / for one whose flesh is properly developed; then comes the medium, then the lowest. / Semen, however, becomes fully active in the sixteenth year. / Dependent upon one another and possessing each other's qualities, / the great elements are visible, like fire in wood and oil in sesame. / The enumeration of the body has been declared according to general categories in gross terms; / but the minute parts of the bodily limbs, through endless divisions, are exceedingly hard to state. / Thus said the venerable Kaśyapa. / Thus in the Section on the Body, the anatomical chapter called 'Investigation of the Body'.

The anatomical chapter on the origins of conception.
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3.6.p2

pāṇipādāṅgulāsthīni ṣaṣṭiḥ syurviṃśatirnakhāḥ

3.6.p3

pāṇipādaśalākāstu viṃśatiḥ parikīrtitāḥ

3.6.p4

pāṇipādaśalākānāmadhiṣṭhānacatuṣṭayam

3.6.p5

dve pārṇyorasthinī kūrcāścatvāraḥ pādayoḥ smṛtāḥ

3.6.p6

dvāveva hastamaṇikau catvāryāhuraratniṣu

3.6.p7

jānvasthinī dve saṃkhyāte catvāryasthīni jaṅghayoḥ

3.6.p8

dvāvūrunalakau dve ca khyāte jānukapālike

3.6.p9

dvāvaṃsāvaṃsaphalakāvapi dvāveva cākṣakau

3.6.p10

dve bāhunalake dve dve śroṇitālūṣake tathā

3.6.p11

ekaṃ jatru bhagāsthyekaṃ grīvā pañcadaśāsthikī

3.6.p12

bhārgavā'sthīni pṛṣṭhayāni catvāriṃśacca pañca ca

3.6.p13

caturdaśāsthīnyurasi hanvasthyekaṃ tu nirdiśet

3.6.p14

śirasastu kapālāni catvāryāhurmanīṣiṇaḥ

3.6.p15

caturviṃśatiḥ pārśve ca tāvanti sthālakāni ca

3.6.p16

caturviṃśatirevāhuḥ sthālakārbudakāni ca

3.6.p17

dvau śaṅkhau parisaṃkhyātau dve hanumūlabandhane

3.6.p18

lalāṭanāsikāgaṇḍakūṭāsthyekaṃ vinirdiśet

3.6.p19

ityasthisaṃkhyā sāmānyād vṛddhihrāsau nimittajau

3.6.p20

daśaivāyatanānyāhuḥ prāṇānāṃ tāni me śṛṇu

3.6.p21

mūrdhā'tha hṛdayaṃ bastiḥ kaṇṭhaujaḥ śukraśoṇitam

3.6.p22

śaṅkhau gudaṃ tatastrīṇi mahāmarmāṇi cāditaḥ

3.6.p23

nābhiḥ plīhā yakṛt kloma hṛdvṛkkau gudabastayaḥ

3.6.p24

kṣudrāntramatha ca sthūlamāmapakvāśayau vapā

3.6.p25

koṣṭhāṅgāni vadanti jñāḥ pratyaṅgāni nibodha me

3.6.p26

akṣiṇī nāsike karṇau stanāvoṣṭhau kukundarau

3.6.p27

hastau pādau bhruvau kūṭau bāhujaṅghorupiṇḍikāḥ

3.6.p28

sṛkkiṇī karṇaśaṣkulyau karṇaputrākṣitārake

3.6.p29

vṛṣaṇau dantaveṣṭau ca śaṅkhakāvupajihvike

3.6.p30

dantalohādhimūlāni dve dve sarvāṇi nirdiśet

3.6.p31

bastirbastiśiraḥ śephaḥ pṛṣṭhaṃ sacibukodaram

3.6.p32

lalāṭamāsyaṃ gojihvā śiro hṛdayamekaśaḥ

3.6.p33

pāṇipādataleṣveva catvāri hṛdayāni tu

3.6.p34

śākhāhṛdayasaṃjñāni pañcamaṃ cetanāśrayam

3.6.p35

akṣibandhāni catvāri vidyādvieśatiraṅgulīḥ

3.6.p36

srotāṃsi dvividhānyāhuḥ sūkṣmāṇi ca mahānti ca

3.6.p37

mahānti nava jānīyād dve cādhaḥ sapta copari

3.6.p38

nābhiśca romakūpāśca sūkṣmasrotāṃsi nirdiśet

Thirty-two are considered the teeth, and just as many their sockets. / The bones of the fingers and toes are sixty; there are twenty nails. / Twenty are declared to be the rods of the hands and feet. / There are four bases for the rods of the hands and feet. / Two are recorded as the bones of the heels, and four are the brush-like bunches in the feet. / Just two are the wrist-bones, and they say there are four in the forearms. / The knee-bones are counted as two, and four are the bones in the shanks. / Two are the cylindrical bones of the thighs, and two are known as the kneecaps. / Two are the shoulders, two the shoulder-blades, and likewise just two are the collarbones. / Two are the cylindrical bones of the upper arms; and two each are the pelvic bones and the palate-bones. / One is the throat-bone, one the pubic bone; the neck consists of fifteen bones. / The bones of the back, Bhārgava, are forty-five. / Fourteen bones are in the chest, and one should indicate one jawbone. / The wise say there are four plates of the head. / In the side there are twenty-four, and just as many are the sockets; / they say there are twenty-four sockets and caps. / Two are counted as the temples, and two are the joint-bindings at the base of the jaw. / One should indicate one bone each for the forehead, the nose, and the ridge of the cheek. / Such is the count of bones in general; increase and decrease arise from specific causes. / Just ten are said to be the seats of the vital breaths; hear them from me: / the head, then the heart, the bladder, the throat, vital essence, semen, and blood, / the two temples, and the rectum; and among them, the first three are the great vulnerable spots. / The navel, spleen, liver, kloman, heart, kidneys, rectum, and bladder, / the small intestine, and then the large intestine, the stomach, the lower bowel, and the omentum— / these the learned call the visceral organs. Learn from me the minor limbs: / the two eyes, the two nostrils, the two ears, the two breasts, the two lips, the two buttocks, / the two hands, the two feet, the two eyebrows, the two cheek-ridges, the upper arms, shanks, and calves, / the two corners of the mouth, the two pinnae of the ears, the two earlobes, and the two pupils of the eyes, / the two testicles, the two gums, the two temple-regions, and the two sublingual tissues, / the roots behind the teeth—all these one should indicate by twos. / The bladder, the neck of the bladder, the penis, the back together with the chin, and the abdomen, / the forehead, the mouth, the uvula, the head, and the heart: each is single. / In the palms of the hands and soles of the feet there are indeed four hearts, / designated as the hearts of the limbs; the fifth is the seat of consciousness. / Four are the bindings of the eyes; one should know the fingers and toes to be twenty. / Microchannels are said to be of two kinds: minute and large. / One should know the large ones to be nine: two below and seven above. / One should indicate the navel and the hair follicles as the minute microchannels. / From the heart branch out the ten mothers of the vessels: / four vessels run upward, two transversely, and four downward. / Branching again and again, they pervade the body, / like the veins of leaves; and they are called vessels because of their flowing. / Just as a wooden figure bound with grass rope / might be plastered on the outside with clay, so is this thing called the body: / the bones are bound by ligaments, the ligaments are plastered with flesh; / it is constantly nourished by vessels, and all of it is covered with skin. / Continuously extending from the roots of the ears are twice one hundred ducts; / wind, perpetually abiding in them, supports fire and soma above. / Exceeding two hundred thousand are the pores outside and inside; / so many are the hair follicles produced, if counted one by one. / Increase and decrease result from insemination, and by nature from the creator; / know that by nature those of women are deficient by a fourth part. / And in each pore one should recognize a minute opening of a vessel; / when perspiring, one emits sweat through these vessel-openings. / For an embodied being who is born, growing, youthful, or old, / we measure the fluids according to one's own handful. / Marrow, fat, adipose tissue, urine, pitta, kapha, and stool / are recorded as consisting of one, two, three, four, five, six, and seven handfuls respectively. / Eight handfuls are of blood, and nine are of transformed nutrient fluid. / Exactly ten handfuls are declared to be of water situated in the skin; / by that water the bodily tissues, beginning with blood, are nourished. / And in diarrhoea it is passed; from it urine proceeds; / in a wound, lymph, pus, and slime proceed from it. / And when it is corrupted, there occur ringworm, itching, and eczema, / skin diseases, leucoderma, scabies, and loss of hair. / Raised by agni and wind through transformations, that is called sweat. / The measure of vital essence is equal to the measure of kapha. / In the body, there is half a handful of semen, and likewise of brain matter. / All this measure stated is the maximum / for one whose flesh is properly developed; then comes the medium, then the lowest. / Semen, however, becomes fully active in the sixteenth year. / Dependent upon one another and possessing each other's qualities, / the great elements are visible, like fire in wood and oil in sesame. / The enumeration of the body has been declared according to general categories in gross terms; / but the minute parts of the bodily limbs, through endless divisions, are exceedingly hard to state. / Thus said the venerable Kaśyapa. / Thus in the Section on the Body, the anatomical chapter called 'Investigation of the Body'.
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