kapāla-mocanī (4434)
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- kapāla-mocanī
Entry 4434, Page 167, Col. 2 -
(kapAlamocanI, kapAla-mocanI)
kapāla-mocanī¦ (once kapālī°) vidyā, a prized aspect of surgical art: MSV ii.26.6 (here kapālī°), 7, 9; 30.17 ff.; it involves opening a man's skull and extracting an insect (prāṇaka), which caused a disease (kapāla-vyādhi, 30.18), see 31.6 ff., also 33.12 (a centipede is thus removed).