Ashtangasamgraha 7.10
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7.10
Kukkuṭāṇḍaka, lābākṣa, pārāvataka, sūkara,
varaka, uddālaka, ujjāla, cīna, śārada, and dardura.
Injury to these two: one may live if the arrow remains inside or falls out due to suppuration, but not if the arrow is extracted.
Between the eyebrows is the sthapanī.
Injury there is like that of the utkṣepa.
Five joints in the head, transverse and vertical, are named the sīmantas.
Injury to them causes death through insanity, dizziness, and loss of consciousness.
The union of the veins nourishing the tongue, nose, eyes, and ears at the palate—
their four apertures are named the śṛṅgāṭakas; injury to them causes immediate death.
Inside the skull, at the upper confluence of the vein-joints, is the whorl of hair, which is called adhipati.
There too, immediate death occurs.
And their skin, nails, eyes, face, and excreta become dark.
Tasty, soft, unctuous, and prepared with sharp ingredients.
One should recognize it as enveloped by excessive eating by signs of āma accompanied by burning sensation.
The gandharvas [afflict] by touching;
the serpents by entering;
the yakṣas by causing their own fragrance to be smelled;
the rākṣasas by mounting and driving;
likewise the piśācas and others;
the pitṛs by appearing; the ṛṣis, gurus, elders, and siddhas by cursing.
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