Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t6.1

c6.s1.t6.1

1. Gaṅgādhar’s recension of the statement of Charaka is full of inconsistencies and incongruities. To begin with, the sum of the several items of the list does not agree with the total stated at its conclusion. The latter is 360, while the former is either 370 or 368, according as No. 16 is counted separately, or together with No. 15, though the wording of the clause in the original seems to imply that Nos. 15 and 16 are to be taken as a single item. The attempt of Gaṅgādhar to remove this inconsistency will be explained in the next paragraph. In the meantime, other inconsistencies are now enumerated in the order of their occurrence in the list of Gaṅgādhar.