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210 THE SUSHRUTA SAMHITA. [Chap. IX.
perform such specific functions of the body, as sound,
touch, taste, sight, smell, inspiration, sighing, yawning,
sneezing, laughter, speech, and weeping, etc., and tend to
maintain the integrity of the body. These Dhamanis,
reaching the heart, respectively ramify themselves into
three branches, thus making thirty (ramifications in all).
Ten of these serve the following purposes, viz , two serve
as the channels of the bodily Vayu, two of the Pitta,
two of the Kapha, two of the blood, and two of the
Rasa (lymph chyle). Eight of the remaining ones
(twenty), serve the following functions, vis., two of them
carry sound, two sight or colour, two smell, and two
taste. Moreover a man speaks with the help of another
two, makes sound with the help of another couple,
sleeps through the instrumentalit}- of another pair
(couple), and wakes up with the help of another couple.
Two of the Dhamanis (ducts) carry the fluid of lachry-
mation, two of them (ducts), attached to the breasts
of a woman, cany milk of her breasts, which, coursing
through the breast of a man, convey his seminal fluid.
Thus we have described the thirty Dhamanis with
their ramifications. These sustain and maintain the
integrity (of the limbs and members of the body) above
the (line of) umbilicus, such as the Udara, the sides,
the back the chest, the neck, the shoulders and the
arms. 4.
IVIcmorabIC Verse:—The up-coursing Dhama-
nis duly perform the offices stated above. Now I
shall describe the specific functions, etc., {i.e., nature,
office, and situations, etc..) of the down-coursing ones. 5.
Functions of the down -coursing
Dhamanis :—The down-coursing Dhamanis res-
pectively form the channels for the downward conveyance
of Vayu (flatus), urine, stool, semen, and catamenial