Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t4.3
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t4.3
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c6.s2.t4.3
The term sole (*tala*) refers to the five long bones (*śalākā*) and to the single bone that connects them. The cluster (*kūrca*) and the ankle (*gulpha*) contain two bones each. Hence we have ten.’ (Original Text in § 96, cl. 4.)