Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s2.t4.12

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5. The system of Charaka counts forty-five bones. Like Suśruta’s system it excludes the vertebrae of the neck; but, unlike it, it includes those of the pelvis (the sacral and anal bones). Accordingly its numeration is made up thus:

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