Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t18.4

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4. Also, in a formal point of arrangement, the Non-medical Version differs from the two Medical Versions. In the former the phalanges are placed after the long bones (§ 22, cl. 4 b). In the Medical Versions of Charaka (§ 4) and Bheḍa (§ 12), on the other hand, they precede the long bones. The latter arrangement, it is hardly necessary to say, observes the natural and logical order of the bones.