Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t14.1

c6.s1.t14.1

In his commentary on Charaka's Compendium, in illustration of the statement of Suśruta (§ 27) that the professors of General Medicine hold the number of bones to be 360, Gangādhar quotes the Non-medical Version, as he states himself, from the Law-book of Yājnavalkya and the Agni Purāṇa. As given by him, that Version is not quite easy to follow, but it would seem to yield the following list, which works out the required total of 360 (Original Text in § 78):