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2. Suśruta’s way of counting the jaw-bones agrees generally with that of modern Anatomy. The two maxillaries really consist each of two bones, but their two lateral halves are so intimately united by harmonic sutures that they are counted each as a single bone. In the same way Suśruta counts two *hanu* or jaw-bones, which, therefore, practically correspond to the maxillaries. Ātreya-Charaka, on the other hand, does not recognize the existence of a maxillary as a single bone. He divides either of them horizontally into a number of separate bones (Figs. 31 and 32). The superior maxillary (Fig. 30) consists of two parts, the body and certain processes. The chief of the latter are, (1)