Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t18.6

c6.s1.t18.6

6. A coincidence may be worth noting. In the existing MS. of the Bheḍa Saṃhitā the clause referring to the arms is missing (§ 13, cl. 1). Exactly the same omission is found in the Non-medical Version (§ 17, cl. 2 c). The author of that version, as has been suggested in § 21 (p. 58), must have had a defective MS. of the Medical Version to work with. The actual existence of such defective manuscripts is curiously corroborated by the MS. of the Bheḍa Saṃhitā.