A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c36.62

v2.c36.62

442 In agreement with Suśruta. The circumference of the lower leg is sixteen aṅgula in the Carakasaṃhitā. 443 Not recorded by Suśruta. In agreement with Caraka. 444 In conformity with Caraka and Suśruta. 445 Not recorded by Suśruta. In agreement with Caraka, who adds that its circumference is sixteen aṅgula. 446 Not recorded by Suśruta. In agreement with Caraka. 447 In agreement with Caraka. Suśruta mentions two aṅgula for a testicle (its breadth according to Dalhaṇa) and four aṅgula for the length of the penis (the flaccid penis of a man of the śaśa type according to Dalhaṇa). The śaśa and other male types are described in treatises on kāmaśāstra. 448 In conformity with Caraka. Suśruta mentions eighteen aṅgula in a male. 449 Caraka and Suśruta do not mention this circumference. 450 It measures ten aṅgula in the Carakasaṃhitā. Suśruta does not mention it. Indu remarks that the length of the bastiśiras is meant; it extends from the root of the penis to the navel. 451 It is ten aṅgula in breadth and twelve in length in the Carakasaṃhitā. Suśruta says that the distance between penis and navel measures twelve aṅgula. 452 In conformity with Caraka. Not mentioned by Suśruta. 453 In agreement with Caraka, who may mean the upper trika. Cakrapāṇi and Indu interpret it as the lower trika. Suśruta does not give a measure for the trika. 454 In agreement with Caraka. The measure is absent from the Suśrutasaṃhitā. 455 In agreement with Caraka and Suśruta. 456 In conformity with Caraka. Not mentioned by Suśruta. 457 The same measures are given by Caraka. Suśruta says that the male chest is as broad as the female śroṇi; the female chest is eighteen aṅgula broad (see Dalhaṇa's comments). 458 In conformity with Caraka. Not mentioned by Suśruta. 459 Caraka gives the same measures. Suśruta is silent about them. 460 In agreement with Caraka. Not mentioned by Suśruta. 461 Caraka uses the same terms and gives the same measures. Suśruta mentions sixteen aṅgula as the distance between shoulder (aṃsapīṭha) and elbow (kūrpara), and between wrist (maṇibandha) and elbow; the arm (bhuja) thus measures thirty-two aṅgula; the hasta (extending from the elbow to the tip of the middle finger according to Dalhaṇa) is twenty-four aṅgula long. 462 In agreement with Suśruta. Absent from the Carakasaṃhitā. 463 In conformity with Caraka. Suśruta mentions that the neck is four aṅgula long (grīvocchrāya) and that its circumference is twenty aṅgula (see Dalhaṇa's comments). 464 The same measures are found in the Carakasaṃhitā. The length of the face (mukhāyāma) is twelve aṅgula in the Suśrutasaṃhitā, where its circumference (pariṇāha) is not mentioned. 465 In agreement with Caraka and Suśruta. 466 Identical in the Carakasaṃhitā. The chin, each wing of the nose (nāsāpuṭabhāga), the root of the ear, and the region between the eyes (nayanāntara) measure two aṅgula each in the Suśrutasaṃhitā, while nose, ear, forehead and interpupillary region measure four aṅgula. 467 The septum nasi according to PW and MW; the nostril according to Singhal and Chunekar. Indu remarks that it consists of muscular tissue. 468 One aṅgula and a third according to Singhal and Chunekar. Indu interprets tribhāgāṅgula as one third of an aṅgula.