Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t8.2

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¹ The original of this MS. was in Benares in 1873, where a copy of it was procured by me for the late Professor von Roth. It is rather inaccurate, but fairly complete, there being only a very large lacuna in the sixth section (*Cikitsita Sthāna*). Through the kind inter-mediation of Professor R. Garbe I have the loan of it. Tübingen, No. 145, is another incomplete copy of the same Benares MS. A second MS. of the same commentary is recorded as No. 2160 in the *Notices of Sanskrit MSS.* It is described as ‘incomplete, containing only the first five books’. A third MS. is being used by Kaviraj Harinath Viśarada in his edition of Charaka’s Compendium with Chakrapāṇidatta’s Commentary (Calcutta, śaka 1817 = A.D. 1895). A fourth MS., ‘complet et bien conservé’ is announced by Dr. P. Cordier in his *Récentes Découvertes*, p. 10, and (according to a private letter from him, October 30, 1904) is being copied for him. From a few passages, kindly collated by him for me it appears to agree closely with the Benares MS. referred to above. A copy, from it, of the osteological statement was kindly supplied by him to me (§ 75). Further, two MSS., Nos. 2503 and 2855, are stated in *Notices*, vol. xi, p. 39, to exist in the Government of India Collection in Calcutta, but on inquiry I am informed that No. 2855 is lost; and No. 2503, which I obtained on loan, I find on examination to be not a MS. of Chakrapāṇidatta’s Commentary, but a fragment of the text of Charaka’s Compendium, viz. the 30th chapter of the *Sūtra Sthāna* and the *Vimāna Sthāna*.