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the palatine process which forms the hard palate (*tālu* or *tālūṣaka*), and which is counted by both Ātreya-Charaka and Suśruta as a separate bone (§ 67); and (2) the alveolar process which contains sockets of the teeth. This alveolar process, too, is counted as a separate bone, but by Ātreya-Charaka alone, who calls it *dant-olūkhala*, or tooth-socket bone. As to the ‘body’ of the superior maxillary, it would appear that Ātreya-Charaka looked upon it as being continuous with and forming part of the malar bones (§ 66). In the system of Ātreya-Charaka, therefore, there