Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s1.t3.10

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7. In connexion with the cluster of bones (*kūrca*) it may be well to discuss the case of a bone which is not especially enumerated in the list of Suśruta, but which he mentions in the sixth chapter of the Anatomical Section (*Śārīra Sthāna*), in discussing the ‘vital spots’ (*marman*). It is there named by him *kūrca-śiras*, or head of the cluster, that is, head-bone within the cluster. He defines its position as follows: