Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s2.t4.5

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2. But further, the aggregate ten conflicts with the explicit statements of Suśruta himself regarding the number of clusters (*kūrca*) and ankle-bones (*gulpha*). On Ḍallaṇa’s theory there would be two clusters and two ankle-bones in either foot, and homologously two clusters and two wrist-bones (*maṇibandha*) in either hand. This results in an aggregate of eight clusters (*kūrca*), four ankle-bones (*gulpha*) and four wrist-bones (*maṇibandha*). On the other hand, Suśruta teaches explicitly that there are only four clusters in the hands and feet, two ankle-bones and two wrist-bones. Thus in the fifth chapter of the Anatomical Section (*Śārīra Sthāna*) he says: