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is practically no superior maxillary. It is replaced by three bones, (1) the hard palate (*tālūṣaka*, § 67); (2) superior alveolar process, or tooth-socket bone (*dant-olūkhala*, § 68);¹ (3) the malar bone, of which the ‘body’ of the maxillary forms a part (Fig. 32). On the other hand, the system of Suśruta, consequent on its recognizing a superior maxillary bone (*hanu*), does not admit any separate tooth-socket bone. At the same time Suśruta’s *hanu*, or upper jaw-bone, does not fully correspond to the superior maxillary, because of its excluding the palatine process, which Suśruta (equally with Ātreya-Charaka) counts as a separate bone (*tālu*, § 67).