Ashtangasamgraha 34.5

34.5

sanibandhano nirnibandhanaśca ṣoḍaśāṅgulau sandaṃśau dvau bhavataḥ |

tau tvaṅmāṃsasirāsnāyugataśalyoddharaṇārthamupadiśyete |

tathānyaḥ sandaṃśaḥ ṣaḍaṅgulo 'rdhāṅgulavistṛto vakradvibāhuraṅguṣṭhāṅguliprāntasamāgamākṛtiḥ sūkṣmaśalyākṣipakṣmavraṇādhimāṃsāharaṇe ||

bhinno 'sramuṣṇaṃ sravati śleṣmaṇā nīrujo ghanaḥ |

śītaḥ savarṇaḥ kaṇḍūmān pakvaḥ pūyaṃ sravet ghanam ||

Gripping forceps (sandaṃśas) are of two kinds, with a catch and without a catch, each sixteen finger-breadths long. / Those two are prescribed for extracting foreign bodies situated in the skin, flesh, veins, and ligaments. / Likewise, another gripping forcep is six finger-breadths long, half a finger-breadth wide, with two curved arms, shaped like the meeting of the thumb and fingertip, [used] for extracting minute foreign bodies, eyelashes, and proud flesh of wounds. / When ruptured, it discharges hot blood; that from śleṣman is painless, dense, / cold, of the same color [as the skin], itchy, and when ripe discharges thick pus.