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4. Vāgbhaṭa I, as usual, attempts to combine the systems of Ātreya-Charaka and Suśruta. From the latter he adopts the transfer of the sacral and anal bones from the vertebral column (*pṛṣṭha*) to the pelvis (*śroṇi*). But he follows the former in counting them as forming together a single bone, which he names *trika*, or triangular (§ 38, cl. 3, § 39, cl. 7).