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Marma is discussed in one of the four main Vedas and also detailed in Sushrut
Samhita. "Maryanti iti marmani" i.e. the energy points when gets affected
can lead to death.
In ancient India, it was cautioned that these marma points were to be guarded from harm.
If these points were pierced by arrows or hit forcefully it could result in disease, trauma or even death.
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Location of the Marma points
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- Where flesh, veins, arteries, tendons, bones and joints meet.
- At the junction where vayu, pitta, kapha meet.
- Where sattwa, raja, tama meet; or where eternity and relativity meet.
- Can say they are also the points where the three aspects of self realization meet
i.e. inner self, outer world and between the two (know, known, and process of knowing).
- They may also be the junctions between the physical, astral and
causal bodies.
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Measurement of Marmas
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- The size of the marmas are measured by finger breadth, called anguli or angula; anguli is the width of one's own finger.
- All marma measurements are made with the patient's own fingers, not the fingers of the practitioner.
- Most of the marmas have the same meanings as their position, making it easy to remember their location.
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Stages of Surgery
