Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t13.7
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t13.7
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c6.s1.t13.7
(c) The preceding two defects are mere misplacements, but the most serious defect of the Non-medical Version is that it entirely ignores the two bones of the arms (*bāhu*) and the four bones of the wrists (maṇika). These bones, as a reference to the lists of the Medical Versions of Charaka (§§ 4, 7) and Bheḍa (§ 12) shows, should have been enumerated between Nos. 7 and 8, and Nos. 12 and 13 respectively.
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- Carakasaṃhitā — Agniveśa (Āyurveda) & Caraka, Sanskrit
- Bheḷasaṃhitā — Bheḷa, Sanskrit