Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t5.2

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‘The body consists of the following parts: two arms (*bāhu*), two legs (*sakthi*), the head and neck (*śiro-grīva*), and the trunk (*antarādhi*). These make up the sexipartite body (*ṣaḍaṅga*). Inclusive of the teeth, their sockets, and the nails, it has three hundred and sixty bones. These are 27 c. 24 sockets of them (*sthālaka*) resembling tubercles (*ar-buda*), the whole (27 *a-c*) amounting to 72.
28. 2 temporal bones (*śaṅkhaka*).
29. 4 cranial pan-shaped bones (*śiraḥ-kapāla*).
30. 17 bones of the breast (*vakṣas*). These are the three hundred and sixty bones.’