Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t8.7

c6.s1.t8.7

4. Regarding the evidence on the condition of the text of Charaka’s statement, the fortunate preservation of Chakrapāṇidatta’s gloss on No. 19, *tālūṣake*, shows the misplacement of that item as already extant in his time. The extreme antiquity, indeed, of this particular misplacement, as has already been pointed out in § 5, is guaranteed by its occurrence in the Non-medical Version, as well as in the Medical Version of Bheḍa (§ 12). In default of any gloss on No. 18, *jatru*, and No. 23, *grīvā*, it must remain uncertain, whether they were misplaced in Charaka’s text as Chakrapāṇidatta saw it, or whether he read them in their right position as shown in the Non-medical Version (§ 16). Again the commentary’s silence on No. 9, *maṇika*, No. 13, *jānu-kapālika*, and No. 16, *aṃsa*, leaves it also uncertain how far Chakrapāṇidatta’s text may have supported the emendations suggested in § 6.