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name of the shaft (including the neck), or rib proper, is *parśuka* or *pārśvaka*. Each of the three parts, the rib, its tubercle, and its corresponding transverse process, as usual with the ancient Indian anatomists (§ 44), is counted as a separate bone. It may be noted, however, that even admitting the Indian way of