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on either side. But in the spine, he counted each vertebra separately without any median column. Ātreya-Charaka, less correctly, had applied the former method of counting also to the neck (§ 61). In the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, even more confusedly, it is extended to the whole of the spine. The latter is supposed to consist of a median column, divided into an upper (anūka) and a lower (udara) portion, either of them giving off an equal number of branch bones (transverse processes) on either side.