Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t8.10

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1. As stated in § 1, Ātreya’s theory of the skeleton is found also in Bheḍa’s Compendium (*Bheḍa Saṃhitā*). Of this compendium, at present, no more than a single manuscript is known to exist, dated about 1650 A. D., and preserved in the Palace Library in Tanjore (Burnell’s Catalogue, No. 10773).¹ The arrangement of the Compendium of Bheḍa agrees with that of the Compendium of Charaka. Accordingly his statement on the bones of the human body is also found in the seventh chapter of the Anatomical Section (*Śārīra Sthāna*). It runs as follows (Original Text in § 76):