Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.3
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t3.3
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c6.s2.t3.3
‘These bones are of five kinds, namely, pans (*kapāla*), sharp-ones (*rucaka*), tender-ones (*taruṇa*), ornaments (*valaya*), and reeds (*nalaka*). From among them the pan-shaped bones occur in the knees, elbows, hips, shoulders (*aṃsa*), cheeks, palate, temples, interiliac space (i.e. sacrum), and cranium. The sharp