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40. (And let him reflect thus that) there is no pleasure to be met with in this never-ceasing passage of the soul through mundane existence;
41. '(And that) even what is called pleasure, on account of the absence of pain, is of a transient nature;
42. (And that) he who is unable to enjoy such pleasures (from sickness or some such cause), or who is unable to procure them (from poverty), suffers severe pangs.
43. He must recognise this human frame to consist of seven elements of blood, and flesh,
44. Those elements are, adeps, scrum of flesh, bone, marrow, and semen.
45. It is covered with skin.
46. And it has a nasty smell.
47. It is the receptacle of (the above-named) impure substances (adeps and the rest).
48. Though surrounded by a hundred pleasures, it is subject to change.
49. Though carefully supported (by elixirs and the like), it is subject to destruction.
50. It is the stay of carnal desire, wrath, greed, folly, pride, and selfishness.
51. It consists of earth, water, fire, air, and ether.
52. it is provided with bone, tubular vessels (carrying bile and phlegm through the body), tubes (conducting the vital airs), and sinews.
53. It is endowed with the quality of ra g as (passion).
54. It is covered with six skins.
55. It is kept together by three hundred and sixty bones.
56. They are distributed (as follows):
57. The teeth together with their receptacles are sixty-four in number.
58. There are twenty nails.
59. There are as many bones to the hands and feet (one at the root of each finger and toe).
60. There are sixty joints to the fingers and toes.
61. There are two (bones) to the two heels.
62. There are four to the ankles.
63. There are four to the elbows.
64. There are two to the shanks.
65. There are two to the knees and two to the cheeks.
66. (There are two) to the thighs and (two) to the shoulders.
67. (There are two) to the lower part of the temples, (two) to the palate, and (two) to the hips.
68. There is one bone to the organs of generation.
69. The backbone consists of forty-five (bones).
70. The neck consists of fifteen (bones).
71. The collar-bone consists of one (bone on each side).
72. The jaw likewise.
73. There are two (bones) at its root.
74. There are two (bones) to the forehead, (two) to the eyes, and (two) to the cheeks.,
75. The nose has one bone, the nose-bone.
76. The ribs together with the joints called 'arbuda,' and with the joints called 'sthânaka,' consist of seventy-two (bones).
77. The breast contains seventeen bones.
78. There are two temporal bones.
79. The head has four skull-bones. Thus (the bones have been enumerated).
The Insitutes of Vishnu CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED ONE
Divisions 2731-2755
