Adaippu / Adappu-kalam
Crown point — padu-varmam school variant
Adaippu/Adappu-kalam is rendered at the crown because that is the crown association requested for this Tamil varmam selection. The name is not topographically stable across schools: a modern anatomical study records an Adappa variant on the lateral thorax, so this crown placement is a lineage-labelled editorial projection rather than a universal anatomical assertion.
Point 2 of 16 in Varmam / Varma Kalai — Tamil Vital Points
Cross-tradition overlaps
No overlapping points are registered for this point.
Sources
Agastya Siddha, Varma Sūthiram / Varma Sūtra manuscript tradition (primary_canonical)
The cited Varma Sūthiram / Varma Sūtra tradition preserves Adaippu (Adappu)-kalam as a named varmam, but the manuscript and print recensions do not establish one uniform location; this entry records the requested lineage projection explicitly as editorial.
K. Arumugam et al., ‘Regional Anatomical Study of Padu Varmam Points’ (scholarly_modern)