Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t1.29

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3. Alteration of Terms. The list of Suśruta introduces three new terms. These are No. 2, *tala*, No. 3, *kūrca*, and No. 15, *kaṇṭha-nāḍī*, which take the place, respectively, of Charaka's terms *śalākā*, *sthāna*, and *jatru*. The identity of the organs indicated by these alternative terms will be discussed in the Third Section (§§ 48, 49, 62). A fourth new term, which does not occur in the list, but is mentioned in the passage just quoted, is *kūrpara*, which is an alternative for Charaka's *kapālikā*, elbow-pan (No. 13 in § 4), and for the false term *kapola* of the Non-medical Version (No. 11 in § 16; see § 19, p. 52).