Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t6.3

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(b) Similarly Nos. 5 *a* and 7 *b* are the identical bones of the carpus and tarsus. This will be fully explained in the sequel (§ 49). Here it may be noted that *kūrca*, or cluster, is the term for these bones which was introduced by Suśruta in substitution of Charaka’s term *adhiṣṭhāna* (or *sthāna*), base (§ 28). Its appearance in the recension of Gaṅgādhar proves that that recension cannot possibly represent the genuine text of Charaka, but that it was prepared subsequently with a knowledge of the terminology of Suśruta. This remark also applies to Gaṅgādhar’s use of the term *kūrpara* for elbow-pan (olecranon, No. 13); see §§ 21, 28.