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(g) No. 27 *a, b, c*, likewise, is affected by a double incongruity. One is of the formal kind: the ribs are pitchforked into the midst of the bones of the head, standing as they do between No. 26, brows, eyes, cheeks and nose, and No. 28, temporal bones. Moreover, as will be shown in the sequel (§ 58), the terms of the three parts of No. 27, which, as given in the genuine text of Charaka, are perfectly intelligible and correct, convey no consistent or intelligible meaning in the recension of Gaṅgādhar.