[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med) › [Early and ascribed compendia](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita) › [Ashtangasamgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha) › 6.5 # Ashtangasamgraha 6.5 Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha 6.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.5) yenābhivṛṣṭamamalaṃ śālyannaṃ rājatasthitam | aklinnamavivarṇaṃ vā tat peyaṃ gāṅgamanyathā || tāsāṃ dve dve vaṅkṣaṇayoḥ kaṭīkataruṇayoścetyaṣṭau śastrato rakṣet | ṣoḍaśa pārśvayoḥ tayorūrdhvagāmekaikāṃ pārśvasandhisaṃjñām | caturviṃśatiḥ pṛṣṭhe | tāsāṃ pṛṣṭhavaṃśamubhayato dve dve ūrdhvagāminyau tāścatasraḥ | caturviṃśatirudare | tāsāṃ meḍhrasyopari romarājīmubhayato dve dve tā api catasraḥ | catvāriṃśadvakṣasi | tāsāṃ dve hṛdaye dve dve ca stanamūlastanarohiteṣu | ekaikāpastambhāpālāpeṣviti | tāścaturdaśa || durvikalpahato mūḍhaḥ sukhamityavabudhyate || viśeṣāt kāsavamathuhṛdgrahasvarasādine || kaṇḍūṃ gaṇḍāni vaivarṇyamaratiṃ vahnimārdavam || > Rainwater by which clean, cooked śāli rice placed in a silver vessel > remains unmoistened or undiscolored is fit to drink as celestial water; otherwise, it is not. / > > Among them, one must protect eight from the knife: two each in the groins and two each in the pelvic bones; > sixteen in the flanks; of those, the one each that courses upward, called pārśvasandhi; > twenty-four in the back; > among them, on both sides of the vertebral column, two each coursing upward: these four; > twenty-four in the abdomen; > among them, above the penis, on both sides of the line of hair, two each: these four also; > forty in the chest; > among them, two in the heart, and two each at the base of the breasts and at the nipples; > one each at the apastambha and apalāpa \[vital spots\]: > these are fourteen. > Afflicted by wrong reasoning, the fool perceives it as happiness. / > > Especially for one suffering from cough, vomiting, constriction in the heart, and loss of voice. / > > Itching, swellings, discoloration, restlessness, and sluggishness of the digestive fire. / > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 6.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.4) - [Next: 6.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.6) - [Up: 6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha~en-mt.6.5) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (1) - [Dravyaguṇasaṃgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.nighantu.dravyaguna.dravyagunasamgraha.8.2-2) — Cakrapāṇidatta, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.med.samhita.astangasamgraha.6.5) · Pramāṇa