Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c6.s3.t1.20

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8. The inconsistencies and incongruities as exposed above clearly prove that Vāgbhaṭa I possessed no experimental knowledge of the skeleton, but that he constructed his list of its bones theoretically from the information provided in the Compendia of Charaka and Suśruta—which compendia, as we shall see in the following paragraph, he cannot have possessed in their original and genuine form, and which, from want of anatomical knowledge, he was unfitted to use critically.