Ashtangasamgraha 6.5
English (machine translation) 6.5
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6.5
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. /
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- Aṣṭāṅgasaṃgraha — Vāgbhaṭa, Sanskrit