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337), enumerates certain vital spots (*marman*) as situated in the body from the neck upwards (*jatrūrdhvam*). In the Pathological Section, chap. I, verse 14, Suśruta again speaks of ‘diseases seated in the organs from the neck upwards (*ūrdhva-jatru*); and Daḷḷana (Jīv., p. 459) once more explains those diseases to be ‘those affecting the eyes, mouth, nose, ears, and cranium’. Many other examples of this use of the phrase *ūrdhva-jatru* might be quoted from the Compendium of Suśruta, e.g. *Sūtra Sthāna*, XXI. 30 (Jīv. ed., p. 68, l. 20); *Cikitsita Sthāna*, XXXVI, 24 (Jīv., p. 569), &c. The same usage is very common in the Summary of Vāgbhaṭa I. The following examples may be quoted: the form *jatrūrdhva* occurs in *Sūtra Sthāna*, chap. XXIX (vol. I, p. 153, l. 14), and chap. XXXVI, (vol. I, p. 176, l. 19); *Nidāna Sthāna*, chap. XV (vol. I, p. 304, l. 5), and *Uttara Sthāna*, chap. XXXVI (vol. II, p. 315, l. 21), quoted by Vāgbhaṭa II in his Compendium (*Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya*), *Sūtra Sthāna*, chap. XX, verse 17; chap. XXVII, verse 11; *Nidāna Sthāna*, chap. XVI, verse 22; *Uttara Sthāna*, chap. XXXI, verse 16 (in 1st ed., vol. I, pp. 373, 433, 842; vol. II, p. 681). The other form *ūrdhva-jatru* occurs in the Compendium of Vāgbhaṭa II, *Sūtra Sthāna*, chap. XX, verse 1 (vol. I, p.