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¹ On this point, however, the Traditional Recension is wrong; see § 32.—A neat statement of the homologies of the four extremities occurs in Aruṇadatta's Commentary to the Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya, Śārīra Sthāna, ch. 3, verses 14, 15 *b* (vol. ii, p. 549 in the first edition): ‘the bones of the two upper limbs are homologous to those of the two lower limbs. They may be detailed as follows: The hand corresponds to the foot, the base of the hand to the heel, and the wrist to the ankle. The cluster exists alike in both. The forearm corresponds to the leg, the elbow to the knee, and the arm to the thigh.’