Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t7.4

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Gangādhar would appear to have realized (what has been already pointed out in § 9) that these two numbers merely duplicate the items enumerated as Nos. 7 *b* and 4 respectively. For the bones of the back of the hands and feet (No. 5 *b*) are precisely the long bones (No. 4), and the bases (No. 5 *a*) are the clusters (*kūrca*, No. 7 *b*). So far Gangādhar, undoubtedly, is right; but his error is that he counts only two clusters. The subjoined tabular statement makes this perfectly plain: