Instep
Dorsal foot target — paired locus collapsed to one anchor
Instep denotes the dorsal-foot target at the lower end of the meithari map. The requested compact count treats the bilateral insteps as one named entry and uses a centered attention anchor; this editorial projection does not claim that the two feet share one anatomical point.
Point 18 of 18 in Kalarimarmam — Meithari Vital Points
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Phillip Zarrilli, When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Practices, and Discourses of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art (scholarly_modern)
Lorna Srimathi Dewanar, Kalaripayattu source texts (primary)