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They are the color of reddish-purple pāḷi flowers. Sputum. In shape, like children's twin play balls, or like two mango fruits attached to a single stem. In direction, originating from the upper direction. In location, bound by a thick nerve emerging from the throat passage, splitting into two, and encircling the heart flesh. In delimitation, the kidney is delimited by the kidney part. This is its shared delimitation. Its unshared delimitation is like hair. The heart is the heart flesh. In color, it is red, the color of the back of a lotus petal. In shape, like a lotus bud placed upside down after removing the outer petals. Smooth on the outside; inside, like the interior of a sponge gourd. Slightly open for the wise, but only a bud for the less wise. Inside it, there is a cavity the size of a punnaga seed pit, where about two and a half pints of blood are stored; based on which the mind element and the mind-consciousness element operate. This is red for one of passionate temperament, black for one of hateful temperament, like meat-wash water for one of deluded temperament, the color of horse-gram soup for one of speculative temperament, the color of kanikara flowers for one of faithful temperament, clear, bright, untroubled, pale, pure, shining like a well-cleansed gem of noble origin for one of wise temperament. In direction, originating from the upper direction. In location, situated in the interior of the body, between the two breasts. In delimitation, the heart is delimited by the heart part. This is its shared delimitation. Its unshared delimitation is like hair. The liver is a pair of flesh membranes. In color, reddish-pale, the color of the back of a not-too-red water lily petal. In shape, single at the base, forked at the tip, like a kovidara leaf. And for the slow-witted, it is only one, large, but for the wise, two or three, small. In direction, originating from the upper direction. In location, inside the two breasts, on the right. Depending on the liver, it is situated. In terms of boundary, it is bounded by the liver part. This is its shared boundary. Its unshared boundary is like hair. Kilomaka means enveloping flesh, of two kinds: covered and uncovered. Both are white in color, like a cotton cloth. In shape, it takes the shape of its location. In direction, the covered kilomaka arises in the upper direction. The other arises in two directions. In location, the covered kilomaka stands covering the heart and kidneys. The uncovered kilomaka stands enveloping the flesh under the skin in the entire body. In terms of boundary, it is bounded below by flesh, above by skin, and sideways by the kilomaka part. This is its shared boundary. Its unshared boundary is like hair. Pihaka means tongue-of-the-belly flesh. It is blue in color, like a nigguṇḍi flower. In shape, it is about seven inches long, unbound, like the tongue of a black calf. In direction, it arises in the upper direction. In location, it is situated on the left side of the heart, leaning on the head of the abdominal membrane, where, when expelled by a blow, it causes the destruction of the life of beings. In terms of boundary, it is bounded by the pihak part. This is its shared boundary. Its unshared boundary is like hair. Papphāsa means lung flesh, a division of thirty-two flesh pieces. It is red in color, like a not-fully-ripe fig. In shape, it is like an unevenly cut, thick, filled piece. Inside, due to the absence of black and yellow, and being struck by the karma-born heat that has arisen, it is tasteless and sapless, like a chewed lump of straw. In direction, it arises in the upper direction. In location, it stands hanging inside the body, between the two breasts, covering the heart and liver. In terms of boundary, it is bounded by the lung part. This is its shared boundary. Its unshared boundary is like hair. The intestines of a man are thirty-two cubits long, of a woman twenty-eight cubits, folded in twenty-one places, forming an intestinal coil. In color, they are white, like the color of sugar solution. In shape, like a trough for blood, or like a severed snake's head bent and placed. In direction, they originate in two directions. In location, they are situated inside the body, bound above at the throat and below at the rectum, extending from the throat to the rectum. In delimitation, they are delimited by the intestinal part. This is their shared delimitation. Their distinct delimitation is, however, like hair. The intestinal mesentery is the binding at the places where the intestines are folded. In color, it is white, like the color of the root of a fragrant usira plant. In shape, it is just like the shape of the root of a fragrant usira plant. In direction, it originates in two directions. In location, it is like a string of a machine when people are doing work with hoes, axes, and hammers, during the time of pulling the machine; like planks of a machine fastened together at the intestinal folds, or like ropes tied together inside a mat of foot-wiping rope, it is situated between the intestinal folds in twenty-one places. In delimitation, it is delimited by the mesentery part. This is its shared delimitation. Its distinct delimitation is, however, like hair. The stomach is what is in the stomach, the eaten, drunk, chewed, and tasted. In color, it is the color of food that has been swallowed. In shape, it is like loosely bound rice in a strainer. In direction, it originates in the upward direction. In location, it is situated in the stomach. The stomach is like a blister formed in the middle of a damp cloth being squeezed on both sides; the outside is smooth, the inside is like a mass of flesh, a conch shell, a wrapping of filth, a soiled cloth flower; it can also be said to be like the inside of a rotten jackfruit; where worms of thirty-two kinds, such as takkoṭakā, gaṇḍuppādakā, tālahīrakā, sūcimukhakā, paṭatantasuttakā, live in a confused and disordered state, moving about in groups; when food and drink are not available, they jump up Having abandoned the vital organs and flesh, they strike; and at the time of consuming drinks and food, they look upwards and hastily devour two or three mouthfuls from the first portion; which is a birthing chamber, a latrine, a sickroom, and a cemetery for those worms. Just as, at a village gate of outcastes, a pile of rubbish in the hot season, when a heavy shower falls, various kinds of corpses are washed away by the water – excrement, carrion, skin, bones, fragments of reeds, phlegm, mucus, blood, and so on – falling and mixed with muddy water, teeming with worms after two or three days, seething from the heat of the sun, emitting foam and bubbles on top, of a very unpleasant color, utterly foul-smelling and disgusting, so that it is unfit to approach or even to look at, let alone to smell or taste; even so, various kinds of drinks and food, crushed by the teeth, turned over by the tongue and hands, mixed with saliva and mucus, having instantly lost their qualities of color, smell, taste, and so on, falling like weaver's leftovers or vomit, enveloped by bile, phlegm, and wind, seething from the heat of the stomach's fire, swarming with worms, emitting foam and bubbles on top, becoming utterly foul-smelling and disgusting; merely hearing of which, displeasure arises towards drinks and food, let alone seeing it with the eye of wisdom, and where the fallen drinks and food are divided into five parts – one part is eaten by living beings, one part is burned by the stomach's fire, one becomes urine, one excrement, and one, having attained the state of essence, nourishes blood, flesh, and so on. It is delimited by the stomach lining and by the stomach's region. This is its delimitation by shared nature. But its delimitation by disparate nature is just like hair. Excrement is feces. In color, it is mostly the color of the food consumed. In shape, it has the shape of the space it occupies. In direction, it arises in the downward direction. In location, it is situated in the large intestine. The stomach is below, between the navel and the spine's base, about eight finger-breadths in length, like a bamboo tube, where, as when rainwater falls on the ground above, it trickles down, filling the ground below; just so, whatever drink or food falls into the stomach, cooked and cooked by the stomach's fire into a frothy mass, becoming smooth like ground flour, trickling down through the intestinal passage, crushed and accumulated like pale mud packed into bamboo joints. It is bounded by the stomach lining and the fecal matter. This is its shared boundary. Its distinct boundary is like hair. Brain matter is the mass of marrow within the skull. Its color is white, like a mushroom, or like curd that has not yet soured. Its shape is spatial. Its direction is upward. Spatially, within the skull, relying on the four suture lines, it is arranged and stands like four balls of dough placed together. It is bounded by the inner surface of the skull and the brain matter. This is its shared boundary. Its distinct boundary is like hair. Bile is of two kinds: bound bile and unbound bile. Bound bile is the color of thick honey oil, while unbound bile is the color of withered ākuli flowers. Both are spatial in shape. Bound bile originates in the upward direction, while the other originates in two directions. Spatially, except for the bound bile, the places free from flesh of hair, body hair, teeth, and nails, and the stiff, dry skin, the unbound bile pervades the rest of the body like a drop of oil in water; when it is aggravated, the eyes become yellow and dizzy, the body trembles and itches. Bound bile is between the heart and lungs. Relying on the gall, established in the gall bladder, like a large Kosātaki gourd or a Kosaka gourd, when it is provoked, beings become mad, their minds deranged, they discard shame and fear of wrongdoing, do what should not be done, say what should not be said,