Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s1.t3.15
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s1.t3.15
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What Suśruta means is, of course, that there is a head-bone in each of the four clusters (*kūrca*), that is, in either of the two carpi and tarsi. The head-bones of the two tarsi are their respective astragali. Those of the two carpi would appear to be their respective semilunar bones (No. 2 in Fig. 6). Charaka (i.e. Ātreya), as has been already indicated, does not mention the existence of any of these four head-bones.