Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t5.12

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4. To sum up: irrespective of the hard palate, which both Ātreya-Charaka and Suśruta count separately, the list of Suśruta represents the two maxillaries by two *hanu*, or jaw-bones, while the list of Charaka breaks them up into—(1) two alveolar processes (*ulūkhala*), (2) one (lower) jaw-bone (*hanv-asthi*), (3) two rami (*hanu-mūla-bandhana*), and (4) probably a portion of his peculiar central facial bone (§ 66). This is shown in the subjoined tabular statement:

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