Snayu Sharira: Bhavaprakasha Counts Nine Hundred Bindings and Draws the Body as a Lattice Window

The short version After it finishes counting the joints, the Bhavaprakasha turns to what holds them shut. It says there...

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सप्त त्वचा: सुश्रुत संहिता में त्वचा की सात परतें और उनकी मोटाई

सुश्रुत संहिता का शारीर स्थान 4 त्वचा की सात परतों और उनके नीचे की सात कलाओं को चावल के दाने...

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Sapta Twacha: Sushruta Samhita Sharira Sthana 4 Measures the Skin in Grains of Rice

The short version The fourth chapter of the Sharira Sthana of the Sushruta Samhita does something no other passage in...

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Ascotana and Anjana in Ashtanga Hridaya Sutrasthana 23: The Chapter Vagbhata Wrote Almost Entirely in the Negative

The short version The twenty-third chapter of the Sutrasthana of the Ashtanga Hridaya is called Ascotananjana-vidhi Adhyaya. Its declared subject...

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Sandhi Sharira in the Bhavaprakasha: 210 Joints, Eight Shapes, and the Sentence Where the Counting Stops

The short version In its anatomical pages, the Bhavaprakasha, Purva Khanda states that the body has two hundred and ten...

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Marma Sharira in the Bhavaprakasha: The 107 Vital Points, and Why the Largest Class Is the One You Survive

The short version A marma is a place on the body where flesh, vessel, ligament, bone and joint meet —...

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