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286) that, among other places, it occurs grīvāyām-ūrdhva-jatruṇi, in the cervical column and upwards of the windpipe, that is, in the neck generally. Vāgbhaṭa I, speaking on the same subject (Aṣṭāṅga Saṃgraha, VI. 36, vol. II, p. 316, l. 3, quoted by Vāgbhaṭa II, in Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya, VI. 31, in 1st ed., vol. II, p. 682, verse 19b), says simply jatrūrdhvam, from the neck upwards, omitting grīvā, and therefore using jatru as indicating the neck generally. On the other hand, Mādhava, in his Nidāna (Jīv. ed., p. 276), paraphrasing the statement of Suśruta, uses the two terms grīvā, cervical column, and gala, windpipe, instead of Suśruta’s grīvā and jatru, thus showing that he took jatru to be synonymous with gala, windpipe. Again, in the fifteenth chapter of the Supplementary Section (Uttara Tantra), speaking of hikkā, or hiccough, Suśruta uses the term jatru-mūlāt, ‘from the base of the neck’ (Jīv. ed., p. 849, verse 9, quoted by Mādhava, in his Nidāna, p. 105). The same phrase is used by Charaka (or rather Dṛḍhabala, VI. 19, in Jīv. ed., 1896, p. 689, verse 30a) and Vāgbhaṭa I (Aṣṭāṅga Saṃgraha, III. 5, vol. I, p. 270, l. 6, quoted by Vāgbhaṭa II in Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya, III. 4, verse 22, in 1st ed., vol. I, p. 716). Gayadāsa, in his commentary on the Compendium of Suśruta (according to Vijaya Rakshita, in the Madhukoṣa, Jīv. ed., p. 105), explains here jatru by grīvā, neck, or kaṇṭha, throat.