Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s2.t1.20
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s2.t1.20
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6. The longer form *aṃsaka* occurs, e. g. in the passage above quoted from the Commentary of Gaṅgādhara. It is a derivative of *aṃsa*, shoulder, and means shoulder-bone, that is, collar-bone. A similar formation is that of *śaṅkhaka*, temporal bone, from *śaṅkha*, temple (§ 64), and *pārśvaka*, rib, from *pārśva*, side (§ 57).