Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t8.1

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1. It has been stated in § 3 that the genuineness of Jīvānanda’s Recension of Charaka’s statement on the bones of the human body is confirmed by the commentary of Chakrapāṇidatta written some time in the middle of the eleventh century A. D. Manuscripts of this work are very rare, and in a more or less incomplete state. The subjoined translation has been made from the Tübingen University Library MS., M. a. I. 463 (Cat. No. 146),¹ where the original passage occurs in vol. iii, fols. 284 *b* and 285 *a*. It runs as follows (Original Text in § 75):