Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t17.1

c6.s1.t17.1

1. The essential identity of the Non-medical Version, as it is found in the Institutes of Vishnu, with the same Version as it occurs in the Law-book of Yājñavalkya, is shown by the fact that it also omits all mention of the arms and wrist-bones, and that it also corrects the resulting shortage of six bones by a corresponding increase in the number of bones of the breast and face, as explained in § 17 (p. 48).