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¹ In the Vedas there occur the following further terms: *kīkasa* for the entire spinal column, or for its cervical, or thoracic, portion; *anūka* or *anūkya* and *karūkara*, for its truncal portion; *anūka*, for its thoracic, or lumbar portion, and *udara* for its lumbar portion; also *karūkara* and *kuntāpa* for the transverse processes of the vertebra. See § 42, cl. 3 and 4; also my article on Ancient Indian Medicine, in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society for 1907, pp. 2–10.