Shiva Purana — Uma Samhita — Chapter 22
SiP 5 22.1
व्यास उवाच ।। विधिं तात वदेदानीं जीव जन्मविधानतः ।। गर्भे स्थितिं च तस्यापि वैराग्यार्थं मुनीश्वर
vyāsa uvāca || vidhiṃ tāta vadedānīṃ jīva janmavidhānataḥ || garbhe sthitiṃ ca tasyāpi vairāgyārthaṃ munīśvara
Vyāsa said: Now, dear sir, tell (me) the rule, according to the ordinance of the living being's birth, and also its abiding in the womb, for the sake of dispassion, O lord of sages.
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SiP 5 22.2
सनत्कुमार उवाच।। शृणु व्यास समासेन शास्त्रसारमशेषतः ।। वदिष्यामि सुवैराग्यं मुमुक्षोर्भवबंधकृत्
sanatkumāra uvāca|| śṛṇu vyāsa samāsena śāstrasāramaśeṣataḥ || vadiṣyāmi suvairāgyaṃ mumukṣorbhavabaṃdhakṛt
Sanatkumāra said: Hear, Vyāsa, in brief the essence of the scriptures entirely; I shall tell of the excellent dispassion of one who seeks release, (concerning) what makes the bondage of existence.
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SiP 5 22.3
पाकपात्रस्य मध्ये तु पृथगन्नं पृथग्जलम्।। अग्नेरूर्ध्वं जलं स्थाप्यं तदन्नं च जलोपरि
pākapātrasya madhye tu pṛthagannaṃ pṛthagjalam|| agnerūrdhvaṃ jalaṃ sthāpyaṃ tadannaṃ ca jalopari
In the middle of the cooking-vessel, the food is separate and the water separate; the water is to be set above the fire, and that food above the water.
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SiP 5 22.4
जलस्याधस्स चाग्निर्हि स्थितोऽग्निं धमते शनैः ।। वायुनाधम्यमानोऽग्निरत्युष्णं कुरुते जलम्
jalasyādhassa cāgnirhi sthito'gniṃ dhamate śanaiḥ || vāyunādhamyamāno'gniratyuṣṇaṃ kurute jalam
And that fire, situated below the water, blows the fire slowly; the fire, fanned by the wind, makes the water very hot.
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SiP 5 22.5
तदन्नमुष्णतोयेन समन्तात्पच्यते पुनः।। द्विधा भवति तत्पक्वं पृथक्किट्टं पृथग्रसः पुनः प्रयांति संपूर्णास्ताश्च देहं समंततः ।। ततस्स नाडीमध्यस्थश्शरीरेणात्मना रसः मासैश्चतुर्भिरंगुल्यः प्रजायंते यथाक्रमम्।। मुखं नासा च कर्णौ मासैः पंचभिरेव च यथा गिरिवराक्रांतः कश्चिद्दुःखेन तिष्ठति ।। तथा जरायुणा देही दुःखं तिष्ठति वेष्टितः केशरोमनखच्छन्नं रोगायतनमातुरम् ।। वदनैकमहाद्वारं गवाक्षाष्टकभूषितम् रक्तं पलशतं ज्ञेयं विण्मूत्रं यत्प्रमाणत।। अंजलयश्च चत्वारश्चत्वारो मुनिसत्तम
tadannamuṣṇatoyena samantātpacyate punaḥ|| dvidhā bhavati tatpakvaṃ pṛthakkiṭṭaṃ pṛthagrasaḥ punaḥ prayāṃti saṃpūrṇāstāśca dehaṃ samaṃtataḥ || tatassa nāḍīmadhyasthaśśarīreṇātmanā rasaḥ māsaiścaturbhiraṃgulyaḥ prajāyaṃte yathākramam|| mukhaṃ nāsā ca karṇau māsaiḥ paṃcabhireva ca yathā girivarākrāṃtaḥ kaścidduḥkhena tiṣṭhati || tathā jarāyuṇā dehī duḥkhaṃ tiṣṭhati veṣṭitaḥ keśaromanakhacchannaṃ rogāyatanamāturam || vadanaikamahādvāraṃ gavākṣāṣṭakabhūṣitam raktaṃ palaśataṃ jñeyaṃ viṇmūtraṃ yatpramāṇata|| aṃjalayaśca catvāraścatvāro munisattama
That food is cooked all around again by the hot water; when cooked it becomes twofold: the dregs separate, the juice separate. And these, being full, go again throughout the body on every side. Then that juice, seated in the midst of the channels, together with the body and the self— In four months the fingers are produced in due order; the mouth, the nose and the two ears in five months. As someone crushed by a great mountain remains in misery, so the embodied one, wrapped in the amnion, remains in misery. Covered with hair, down and nails, a seat of disease, ailing, with the mouth as its one great door, adorned with eight windows; the blood is to be reckoned a hundred palas, and the excrement and urine, by measure, four handfuls each, O best of sages.
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SiP 5 22.6
मलैर्द्वादशभिः किट्टं भिन्नं देहाद्बहिर्भवेत्।। रसस्तु देहे सरति स पुष्टस्तेन जायते
malairdvādaśabhiḥ kiṭṭaṃ bhinnaṃ dehādbahirbhavet|| rasastu dehe sarati sa puṣṭastena jāyate
Along with the twelve wastes the refuse, once separated, passes out of the body; but the essence (rasa) courses within the body, and by it (the body) becomes nourished.
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SiP 5 22.7
कर्णाक्षिनासिका जिह्वा दन्ताः शिश्नो गुदं नखाः ।। मलाश्रयः कफः स्वेदो विण्मूत्रं द्वादश स्मृताः
karṇākṣināsikā jihvā dantāḥ śiśno gudaṃ nakhāḥ || malāśrayaḥ kaphaḥ svedo viṇmūtraṃ dvādaśa smṛtāḥ
Ears, eyes, nose, tongue, teeth, penis, anus, nails — (these are) the seats of waste — phlegm, sweat, feces and urine: these are held to be the twelve.
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SiP 5 22.8
हृत्पद्मे प्रतिबद्धाश्च सर्वनाड्यस्समंततः ।। ज्ञेया रसप्रवाहिन्यस्तत्प्रकारं ब्रुवे मुने
hṛtpadme pratibaddhāśca sarvanāḍyassamaṃtataḥ || jñeyā rasapravāhinyastatprakāraṃ bruve mune
And all the channels (nāḍīs), bound on every side to the lotus of the heart, are to be known as carriers of the essence; I shall tell the manner of that, O sage.
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SiP 5 22.9
तासां मुखेषु तं सूक्ष्मं प्राणस्स्थापयेत् रसम् ।। रसेन तेन नाडीस्ताः प्राणं पूरयते पुनः
tāsāṃ mukheṣu taṃ sūkṣmaṃ prāṇassthāpayet rasam || rasena tena nāḍīstāḥ prāṇaṃ pūrayate punaḥ
At their mouths the breath (prāṇa) sets down that subtle essence; and with that essence the breath in turn fills those channels.
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SiP 5 22.11
पच्यते पच्यमानाच्च भवेत्पाकद्वयं पुनः ।। त्वक् तया वेष्ट्यते पूर्वं रुधिरं च प्रजायते
pacyate pacyamānācca bhavetpākadvayaṃ punaḥ || tvak tayā veṣṭyate pūrvaṃ rudhiraṃ ca prajāyate
It is cooked, and from what is being cooked a twofold cooking then arises: by it the skin is first wrapped around (the embryo), and blood comes to be.
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SiP 5 22.12
रक्ताल्लोमानि मांसं च केशाः स्नायुश्च मांसतः।। स्नायुतश्च तथास्थीनि नखा मज्जास्थिसंभवाः
raktāllomāni māṃsaṃ ca keśāḥ snāyuśca māṃsataḥ|| snāyutaśca tathāsthīni nakhā majjāsthisaṃbhavāḥ
From blood, the body-hair and the flesh; from flesh, the head-hair and the sinews; and from the sinews the bones; the nails arise from marrow and bone.
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SiP 5 22.13
मज्जाकारणवैकल्यं शुक्रं हि प्रसवात्मकम्।। इति द्वादशधान्नस्य परिणामः प्रकीर्तिताः
majjākāraṇavaikalyaṃ śukraṃ hi prasavātmakam|| iti dvādaśadhānnasya pariṇāmaḥ prakīrtitāḥ
Semen is (produced by) a deficiency in the marrow, its cause, and it is generative in nature. Thus the twelvefold transformation of food has been declared.
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SiP 5 22.14
शुक्रोऽन्नाज्जायते शुक्राद्दिव्यदेहस्य संभवः।। ऋतुकाले यदा शुक्रं निर्दोषं योनिसंस्थितम्
śukro'nnājjāyate śukrāddivyadehasya saṃbhavaḥ|| ṛtukāle yadā śukraṃ nirdoṣaṃ yonisaṃsthitam
Semen arises from food, and from semen comes the origin of the divine body. When, at the fertile season, faultless semen is deposited in the womb,
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SiP 5 22.15
तद्वा तद्वायुसंस्पृष्टं स्त्रीरक्तेनैकतां व्रजेत् ।। विसर्गकाले शुक्रस्य जीवः कारणसंयुतः
tadvā tadvāyusaṃspṛṣṭaṃ strīraktenaikatāṃ vrajet || visargakāle śukrasya jīvaḥ kāraṇasaṃyutaḥ
then that, touched by the wind, becomes one with the woman's blood; at the moment of the emission of the semen the living self, joined with its cause, (enters it).
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SiP 5 22.17
पंचरात्रेण कलिलं बुद्बुदाकारतां व्रजेत् ।। बुद्बुदस्सप्तरात्रेण मांसपेशी भवेत्पुनः
paṃcarātreṇa kalilaṃ budbudākāratāṃ vrajet || budbudassaptarātreṇa māṃsapeśī bhavetpunaḥ
In five nights the fluid mass takes on the form of a bubble; the bubble, in seven nights, then becomes a lump of flesh.
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SiP 5 22.18
ग्रीवा शिरश्च स्कंधौ च पृष्ठवंशस्तथोदरम्।। पाणिपादन्तथा पार्श्वे कटिर्गात्रं तथैव च
grīvā śiraśca skaṃdhau ca pṛṣṭhavaṃśastathodaram|| pāṇipādantathā pārśve kaṭirgātraṃ tathaiva ca
Neck and head and the two shoulders, the spinal column and likewise the belly, hands and feet, likewise the two flanks, the hips, and the trunk as well —
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SiP 5 22.19
द्विमासाभ्यन्तरेणैव क्रमशस्संभवेदिह।। त्रिभिर्मासैः प्रजायंते सर्वे ह्यंकुरसंधयः
dvimāsābhyantareṇaiva kramaśassaṃbhavediha|| tribhirmāsaiḥ prajāyaṃte sarve hyaṃkurasaṃdhayaḥ
(these) come into being here in due order within two months; in three months all the sprouting joints arise.
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SiP 5 22.21
दन्तपंक्तिस्तथा गुह्यं जायंते च नखाः पुनः।। कर्णयोस्तु भवेच्छिद्रं षण्मासाभ्यंतरेण तु
dantapaṃktistathā guhyaṃ jāyaṃte ca nakhāḥ punaḥ|| karṇayostu bhavecchidraṃ ṣaṇmāsābhyaṃtareṇa tu
The row of teeth and likewise the private parts arise, and the nails too; and the opening of the two ears comes about within six months.
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SiP 5 22.22
पायुर्मेहमुपस्थं च नाभिश्चाभ्युपजायते।। संधयो ये च गात्रेषु मासैर्जायंति सप्तभिः
pāyurmehamupasthaṃ ca nābhiścābhyupajāyate|| saṃdhayo ye ca gātreṣu māsairjāyaṃti saptabhiḥ
The anus, the urinary passage and the genital organ, and the navel come into being; and the joints that are in the limbs arise in seven months.
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SiP 5 22.23
अंगप्रत्यंगसंपूर्णः परिपक्वस्स तिष्ठति ।। उदरे मातुराच्छन्नो जरायौ मुनि सत्तम
aṃgapratyaṃgasaṃpūrṇaḥ paripakvassa tiṣṭhati || udare māturācchanno jarāyau muni sattama
Complete in limbs and minor limbs, fully ripened, he abides in the mother's belly, enclosed in the membrane, O best of sages.
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SiP 5 22.24
मातुराहारचौर्य्येण षड्विधेन रसेन तु ।। नाभिनालनिबद्धेन वर्द्धते स दिनेदिने
māturāhāracauryyeṇa ṣaḍvidhena rasena tu || nābhinālanibaddhena varddhate sa dinedine
By stealing the mother's food, by the sixfold essence conveyed through the navel-cord, he grows day by day.
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SiP 5 22.25
ततस्मृतिं लभेज्जीवस्संपूर्णेऽस्मिञ्शरीरके ।। सुखं दुःखं विजानाति निद्रास्वप्नं पुराकृतम्
tatasmṛtiṃ labhejjīvassaṃpūrṇe'smiñśarīrake || sukhaṃ duḥkhaṃ vijānāti nidrāsvapnaṃ purākṛtam
Then, when this little body is complete, the living self acquires memory: it discerns pleasure and pain, sleep and dream, and what was done before.
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SiP 5 22.26
मृतश्चाहं पुनर्जातो जातश्चाहं पुनर्मृतः ।। नानायोनिसहस्राणि मया दृष्टानि जायता
mṛtaścāhaṃ punarjāto jātaścāhaṃ punarmṛtaḥ || nānāyonisahasrāṇi mayā dṛṣṭāni jāyatā
"I died and was born again; and having been born I died again. Thousands of various wombs have been seen by me as I was born (again and again)."
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SiP 5 22.27
अधुना जातमात्रोऽहं प्राप्तसंस्कार एव च ।। श्रेयोऽमुना करिष्यामि येन गर्भे न संभवः
adhunā jātamātro'haṃ prāptasaṃskāra eva ca || śreyo'munā kariṣyāmi yena garbhe na saṃbhavaḥ
"Now I am just born and have indeed received (my) formation; I shall do that good by which there is no coming to be in a womb."
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SiP 5 22.28
गर्भस्थश्चिंतयत्येवमहं गर्भाद्विनिस्सृतः ।। अन्वेष्यामि शिवज्ञानं संसारविनिवर्तकम्
garbhasthaściṃtayatyevamahaṃ garbhādvinissṛtaḥ || anveṣyāmi śivajñānaṃ saṃsāravinivartakam
While in the womb he thinks thus: "Once I have come out of the womb I shall seek the knowledge of Śiva, which turns back the round of rebirth."
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SiP 5 22.29
एवं स गर्भदुःखेन महता परिपीडितः ।। जीवः कर्मवशादास्ते मोक्षोपायं विचिंतयन्
evaṃ sa garbhaduḥkhena mahatā paripīḍitaḥ || jīvaḥ karmavaśādāste mokṣopāyaṃ viciṃtayan
Thus that living being, sorely afflicted by the great suffering of the womb, remains there by the force of its deeds, pondering the means of release.
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SiP 5 22.31
संवृतः प्रविशेद्योनिं कर्मभिस्स्वैर्नियोजितः ।। तच्छुक्ररक्तमेकस्थमेकाहात्कलिलं भवेत् पतितस्सागरे यद्वद्दुःखमास्ते समाकुलः ।। गर्भोदकेन सिक्तांगस्सर्वदाकुलितस्तदा
saṃvṛtaḥ praviśedyoniṃ karmabhissvairniyojitaḥ || tacchukraraktamekasthamekāhātkalilaṃ bhavet patitassāgare yadvadduḥkhamāste samākulaḥ || garbhodakena siktāṃgassarvadākulitastadā
Enclosed, it enters the womb, driven there by its own deeds. That semen and blood, lodged in one place, becomes in a single day a turbid mass. As one fallen into the sea, so it abides in distress, utterly overwhelmed; its limbs drenched with the amniotic water, it is then continually afflicted.
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SiP 5 22.32
लोहकुंभे यथा न्यस्तः पच्यते कश्चिदग्निना ।। गर्भकुंभे तथा क्षिप्तः पच्यते जठराग्निना
lohakuṃbhe yathā nyastaḥ pacyate kaścidagninā || garbhakuṃbhe tathā kṣiptaḥ pacyate jaṭharāgninā
As someone placed in an iron pot is cooked by fire, so one cast into the pot of the womb is cooked by the fire of the belly.
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SiP 5 22.33
सूचीभिरग्निवर्णाभिनिर्भिन्नस्य निरंतरम् ।। यद्दुःखं जायते तस्य तत्र संस्थस्य चाधिकम्
sūcībhiragnivarṇābhinirbhinnasya niraṃtaram || yadduḥkhaṃ jāyate tasya tatra saṃsthasya cādhikam
And greater still is the pain that arises for one situated there than the pain of one pierced ceaselessly by needles the colour of fire.
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SiP 5 22.34
गर्भावासात्परं दुःखं कष्टं नैवास्ति कुत्रचित् ।। देहिनां दुःखबहुलं सुघोरमतिसंकटम्
garbhāvāsātparaṃ duḥkhaṃ kaṣṭaṃ naivāsti kutracit || dehināṃ duḥkhabahulaṃ sughoramatisaṃkaṭam
There is nowhere any suffering or hardship greater than dwelling in the womb — for embodied beings it is full of pain, most terrible, exceedingly cramped.
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SiP 5 22.35
इत्येतत्सुमहद्दुःखं पापिनां परिकीर्तितम् ।। केवलं धर्मबुदीनां सप्तमासैर्भवस्सदा
ityetatsumahadduḥkhaṃ pāpināṃ parikīrtitam || kevalaṃ dharmabudīnāṃ saptamāsairbhavassadā
Thus this very great suffering has been declared to belong to sinners; but for those whose minds are set on dharma there is always birth merely by seven months.
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SiP 5 22.36
गर्भात्सुदुर्लभं दुःखं योनियंत्रनिपीडनात् ।। भवेत्पापात्मनां व्यास न हि धर्मयुतात्मनाम् ।
garbhātsudurlabhaṃ duḥkhaṃ yoniyaṃtranipīḍanāt || bhavetpāpātmanāṃ vyāsa na hi dharmayutātmanām |
O Vyāsa, the suffering from the womb, hard to endure, caused by the crushing of the birth-passage as by a press, comes to those of sinful nature, not to those whose selves are joined with dharma.
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SiP 5 22.37
इक्षुवत्पीड्यमानस्य यंत्रेणैव समंततः ।। शिरसा ताड्यमानस्य पाप मुद्गरकेण च
ikṣuvatpīḍyamānasya yaṃtreṇaiva samaṃtataḥ || śirasā tāḍyamānasya pāpa mudgarakeṇa ca
Of one being pressed on all sides by the machine as sugarcane is pressed, and being struck on the head with a mallet, O sinful one—
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SiP 5 22.38
यंत्रेण पीडिता यद्वन्निस्सारा स्स्युस्तिलाः क्षणात् ।। तथा शरीरं निस्सारं योनियंत्रनिपीडनात्
yaṃtreṇa pīḍitā yadvannissārā ssyustilāḥ kṣaṇāt || tathā śarīraṃ nissāraṃ yoniyaṃtranipīḍanāt
Just as sesame seeds pressed by the mill are in an instant emptied of their essence, so the body is emptied of its essence by the crushing of the birth-passage as by a press.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition
SiP 5 22.39
अस्थिपादतुलास्तंभं स्नायुबन्धेन यंत्रितम्।। रक्तमांसमृदालिप्तं विण्मूत्रद्रव्यभाजनम्
asthipādatulāstaṃbhaṃ snāyubandhena yaṃtritam|| raktamāṃsamṛdāliptaṃ viṇmūtradravyabhājanam
With bones for its posts and beams, bound together with the fastening of sinews, plastered over with the clay of blood and flesh, a vessel for the stuff of excrement and urine,
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SiP 5 22.41
ओष्ठद्वयकपाटं च तथा जिह्वार्गलान्वितम्।। भोगतृष्णातुरं मूढं रागद्वेषवशानुगम्
oṣṭhadvayakapāṭaṃ ca tathā jihvārgalānvitam|| bhogatṛṣṇāturaṃ mūḍhaṃ rāgadveṣavaśānugam
having the pair of lips for its door and likewise fitted with the tongue for a bolt, sick with craving for enjoyments, deluded, subject to attraction and aversion,
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SiP 5 22.42
संवर्तितांगप्रत्यंगं जरायुपरिवेष्टितम्।। संकटेनाविविक्तेन योनिमार्गेण निर्गतम्
saṃvartitāṃgapratyaṃgaṃ jarāyupariveṣṭitam|| saṃkaṭenāviviktena yonimārgeṇa nirgatam
with its limbs and sub-limbs folded together, wrapped in the placenta, come forth by the narrow, unclean passage of the womb,
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SiP 5 22.43
विण्मूत्ररक्तसिक्तांगं विकोशिकसमुद्भवम्।। अस्थिपञ्जरविख्यातमस्मिञ्ज्ञेयं कलेवरम्
viṇmūtraraktasiktāṃgaṃ vikośikasamudbhavam|| asthipañjaravikhyātamasmiñjñeyaṃ kalevaram
its limbs drenched with excrement, urine and blood, arisen from the sheath — this body, known as a cage of bones, is to be understood as here (described).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SiP 5 22.44
शतत्रयं षष्ट्यधिकं पंचपेशीशतानि च।। सार्द्धाभिस्तिसृभिश्छन्नं समंताद्रोमकोटिभिः
śatatrayaṃ ṣaṣṭyadhikaṃ paṃcapeśīśatāni ca|| sārddhābhistisṛbhiśchannaṃ samaṃtādromakoṭibhiḥ
Three hundred and sixty (bones), and five hundred muscles; (the body is) covered all around with three and a half crores of hairs,
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SiP 5 22.45
शरीरं स्थूलसूक्ष्माभिर्दृश्याऽदृश्या हि तास्स्मृताः ।। एतावतीभिर्नाडीभिः कोटिभिस्तत्समंततः
śarīraṃ sthūlasūkṣmābhirdṛśyā'dṛśyā hi tāssmṛtāḥ || etāvatībhirnāḍībhiḥ koṭibhistatsamaṃtataḥ
the body (is pervaded) by gross and subtle (channels) — for they are said to be visible and invisible — by just so many crores of channels all around it,
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SiP 5 22.46
अस्वेदमधुभिर्याभिरंतस्थः स्रवते बहिः।। द्वात्रिंशद्दशनाः प्रोक्ता विंशतिश्च नखाः स्मृताः
asvedamadhubhiryābhiraṃtasthaḥ sravate bahiḥ|| dvātriṃśaddaśanāḥ proktā viṃśatiśca nakhāḥ smṛtāḥ
through which that which is within flows out (as) sweat and the like; the teeth are declared to be thirty-two and the nails are held to be twenty.
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SiP 5 22.47
पित्तस्य कुडवं ज्ञेयं कफस्याथाढकं स्मृतम् ।। वसायाश्च पलं विंशत्तदर्धं कपिलस्य च
pittasya kuḍavaṃ jñeyaṃ kaphasyāthāḍhakaṃ smṛtam || vasāyāśca palaṃ viṃśattadardhaṃ kapilasya ca
The bile is to be known as a kuḍava, and the phlegm is held to be an āḍhaka; of tallow twenty palas, and half that of the yellowish (bile).
AI translation rendered from the Sanskrit, not a published edition — the model flagged this verse as uncertain
SiP 5 22.48
पंचार्द्धं तु तुला ज्ञेया पलानि दश मेदसः ।। पलत्रयं महारक्तं मज्जायाश्च चतुर्गुणम्
paṃcārddhaṃ tu tulā jñeyā palāni daśa medasaḥ || palatrayaṃ mahāraktaṃ majjāyāśca caturguṇam
But half of five is to be known as a tulā; of fat, ten palas; the great blood is three palas, and of marrow four times that.
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SiP 5 22.49
शुक्रोर्द्धं कुडवं ज्ञेयं तद्बीजं देहिनां बलम् ।। मांसस्य चैकपिंडेन पलसाहस्रमुच्यते
śukrorddhaṃ kuḍavaṃ jñeyaṃ tadbījaṃ dehināṃ balam || māṃsasya caikapiṃḍena palasāhasramucyate
Semen is to be known as half a kuḍava; that seed is the strength of embodied beings. And of flesh, in a single mass, a thousand palas are declared.
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SiP 5 22.51
इति देहगृहं ह्येतन्नित्यस्यानित्यमात्मनः ।। अविशुद्धं विशुद्धस्य कर्मबंधाद्विनिर्मितम्
iti dehagṛhaṃ hyetannityasyānityamātmanaḥ || aviśuddhaṃ viśuddhasya karmabaṃdhādvinirmitam
Thus this house of the body, impermanent, belongs to the permanent self; impure, it belongs to the pure one, fashioned out of the bondage of deeds.
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