Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t9.3
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s1.t9.3
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2. In No. 28 *b*, Bheḍa's text has the peculiar reading *hanu-kūṭa*, prominence of the jaw, where Charaka's text (§ 4) has *gaṇḍa-kūṭa*, prominence of the cheek. It will be shown in § 65 that though both terms may well be synonymous, the term *hanu-kūṭa* is really inconsistent with the system of Ātreya. It is not improbably, therefore, a false reading for *gaṇḍa-kūṭa*.