Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t4: § 64. Continuation : the Temples
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t4
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§ 64. Continuation : the Temples
c7.s3.t4.1
1. *Śaṅkha*, temple; *śaṅkhaka*, temporal bone. The latter form of the term is found only in the Non-medical Version (§ 16), though, of course, there is no real difference of meaning between the two terms.
c7.s3.t4.2
2. All the three lists give the number of the temporal bones as two. Suśruta, moreover, rightly classes them among the pan-shaped (*kapāla*) bones (§ 30). They are, without any doubt identical with the two temporal bones which are recognized also by modern Anatomy as bones of the cranium, one on either side (Figs. 25, 26).