The Compendium of Kāśyapa 3.6.p30

3.6.p30

dantalohādhimūlāni dve dve sarvāṇi 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'.

The anatomical chapter on the origins of conception.