Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.14

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It may be noticed also as a significant fact that the Non-medical Version of the system of Ātreya (§ 16) includes the eyeballs in the list of bones of the human body. The genuine list of Ātreya, as handed down by Charaka (§ 4) and Bheḍa (§ 12), does not count the eyes among the bones. The author of the Non-medical Version of that list, therefore, must have obtained the eyes from some other source; and this source cannot well have been any other than Suśruta’s statement on the skeleton. If so, it follows that the latter statement, at the time of the