Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s1.t7.6
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s1.t7.6
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4. The Atharva Vedic list (§ 43) has the two synonymous terms jānu and aṣṭhīvat. The latter literally means ‘the organ (knee) which possesses a bone (patella)’, and thus, like jānu, comes to denote specifically the knee-cap.
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- Atharvavedasaṃhitā — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit