Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.17

c6.s2.t3.17

5. It is clear, then, that Suśruta’s list of bones of the human body, in its genuine form, must have contained four additional bones; viz. two shoulder-blades and two eyeballs. As regards the shoulder-blades, it has been shown in the preceding paragraph that their omission, in all probability, is due to a misreading of the term samjña for amsaja. As to the eyes, they would appear simply to have dropped out of the penultimate clause (§ 27) which should run: ‘one each in either cheek, eye, ear, and temple.’