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in the next paragraph. There remain only four bones, the frontal, the two parietal, and the occipital; and there can be no doubt that it is these four bones which are referred to in the list of Charaka as ‘the four pan-shaped bones of the cranium’. They are more or less decidedly concave bones, and therefore are rightly described as pan-shaped (Figs. 27, 28).