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¹ It is this circumstance which led to the absurdity, explained in § 9, of the inclusion of the male and female generative organs, medhr-āsthi, penis, and bhaga, vulva, by Gaṅgādhar in his recension of Charaka’s list of the bones of the skeleton. The usage of literary Sanskrit is taught in the great vocabulary, the Amarakosa, while the medical usage is defined in the medical vocabulary, Rājanighaṇṭu; see § 97, cl. 7.