Visuddhimagga VIII-116

196. Pihakanti udarajivhāmaṃsaṃ.

（14）「脾脏」是像舌状的胃的肉。

[SPLEEN]

Ñ(VIII,116): This is the flesh of the belly's 'tongue'.

Taṃ vaṇṇato nīlaṃ nigguṇḍipupphavaṇṇaṃ.

它的「色」是青的，如尼均提花的颜色。

Ñ: As to colour, it is blue, the colour of nigguṇḍi flowers.

Saṇṭhānato sattaṅgulappamāṇaṃ abandhanaṃ kāḷavacchakajivhāsaṇṭhānaṃ.

「形」──有七指（七寸）大，如黑犊的舌形。

Ñ: As to shape, it is seven fingers in size, without attachments, and the shape of a black calf's tongue.

Disato uparimāya disāya jātaṃ.

「方位」──寄于上方。

Ñ: As to direction, it lies in the upper direction.

Okāsato hadayassa vāmapasse udarapaṭalassa matthakapassaṃ nissāya ṭhitaṃ,

「处所」──在心脏的左侧，寄于胃膜的上侧。

Ñ: As to location, it is to be found near the upper side of the belly to the left of the heart.

yasmiṃ paharaṇappahārena bahinikkhante sattānaṃ jīvitakkhayo hoti.

如果它被打击出来时，有情的命便尽了。

Ñ: When it comes out through a wound a being's life is terminated.

Paricchedato pihakabhāgena paricchinnaṃ,

「界限」──以脾脏的（边际）部分为限。

Ñ: As to delimitation, it is bounded by what appertains to spleen.

ayamassa sabhāgaparicchedo.

这是它的「自分的界限」。

Ñ: … (This is the delimitation by the similar.)

Visabhāgaparicchedo pana kesasadisoyeva.

「他分的界限」与发相似。

Ñ: (But their delimitation by the dissimilar is like that for the head hairs.)