Ashtangasamgraha 34.14

34.14

The rod-instruments also have various shapes and various purposes, and their lengths and circumferences correspond to the requirement. / Among them, two with mouths like earthworms are for the work of probing. / Two of eight and nine fingers, with mouths like lentil halves, are for extracting foreign bodies situated in channels. / There are six cones: / among them, two of twelve and sixteen fingers, with mouths like snake-hoods, are for the action of separation; / likewise, two of ten and twelve fingers, with arrow-notch-shaped mouths, are for shifting; / two with fish-hook-shaped mouths are for extracting. / Likewise, a fetal hook, resembling a cone, eighteen fingers [long], with a bent tip, is for extracting an impacted fetus. / Likewise, [a hook] with a curved tip like a serpent's hood, named after that, is for extracting urinary calculi. / Likewise, a tooth-extractor is four fingers [long], with an arrow-notch-shaped mouth and thick, rounded edges. // And those situated in vulnerable spots, throat, and abdomen, but a large knotted tumor [arbuda].