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(f) Ibid, sārīrasthānam, 6.27 : tatra kaṇṭhanāḍīmubhayataścatasro dhamanyo
dve nīle dve ca manye........ ....karṇapṛsthatodhaḥ samśrite vidhure
ghrāṇamargamubhayataḥ srotomargapratibaddhe abhyantarataḥ phane bhrūpucchāntayoradho'kṣaṇoḥ bahyato' pangau
My
bhruvorantarayo-rupari karṇalalāṭayormadhyeśankhau, ghrāṇaśrotrākṣijihvāsamtarpaṇīnām sirāṇām madhye sirāsannipātaḥ śṛngāṭakāni, tāni cattvāri marmāņi mastakabhyantaropariṣṭāt
sirasandhisa-nnipāto romāvartau'dhipatiḥ.
(g) Ibid, sārīrasthānam, 6.27, p.331: special note by Pt. Lalchand Vaidya "adhipati marma - this is one of the vital places in the human body, situated at the top of the head. The hair of the eye-brows are related to it. A vein here is considered to be unpiercible. The bone above it has a small aperture in it and this is called 'brahmarandhra' (i.e. an aperture in the crown of the head through which the soul is said to escape on its leaving the body). But, at the age of one year in the childhood, this aperture is filled up. If a plam is placed on the head of a just born child, the pulpitations of the vein (or artery) there can be filled. The etymological meaning of the word adhipati is — "adhikṛtya pati rakṣati iti adhipatiḥ." "The soul protects the body by having its ownership of this place." In the Puranas, it is referred to as "brahmaloka", in the Vaiṣnva Puranas as Viṣṇuloka or vaikuntha, in the Śaiva Purāņa as śivaloka or kailaśa, in the Gitā as 'urdhvamūla, it being the mūla i.e. root of adhaḥśākha' body. It is the root of the life. In Yogaśastra, the centre situated inside the back of the head is called sivarandhra. This is the belief of the saivas; they consider it to be the nucleus of life. This is their idea, but it should be understood that the head is the main centre of all the 23 vitals. The synonym for the head is "the best organ" (uttamanga). Lord Punarvasu has written:
pränḥ prāṇabhṛtām yatra, sthitaḥ sarvandriyāṇi ca. taduttamāmgamangānām, śirastadabhidhīyate..
(h) It is written in the caraka (Caraka. Samhitā, a. 9.6): There are 107 marmas vitals). When these vitals are hurt, man or animal experiences extreme pain (which is much more in comparison to other organs). This is because, the vital energy (prāṇa) is much more concentrated in and related to these places. The vitals situated at the trunk are more important than those at the branches. Among them heart, genitals, and head (the nucleus of the 23 vitals including the neek) have even greater importance, because the whole body is subjugated to these three vitals."
17. Yajnavalkya Gītā.
18. Acārānga Vṛtti, patra 185 vigrahaḥ audārikam śarīram tasya ayam vārtamānikakṣaṇaḥ evamb-hūtaḥ sukhaduḥkhānyatararūpaśca gataḥ evambhūtaśca bhāvītyevam yaḥ kṣaṇānveṣaṇaśilaḥ so'nveșī sadā' pramattaḥ syaditi.
तुलसी प्रज्ञा जनवरी-मार्च, 2008
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