Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t6.1

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1. Nāsā or nāsikā, nose, nasal bone; gaṇḍa, cheek, cheek-bone, malar bone; gaṇḍa-kūṭa, or hanu-kūṭa, malar prominence; lalāṭa, brow or superciliary ridge; kakāṭikā, denoting the combined nasal and malar bones. The last term is peculiar to the Atharva Veda. The term lalāṭa is only found in the several versions of the system of Atreya (§§ 4, 12, 16), and in the Atharva Veda (§ 43). The term hanu-kūṭa is peculiar to the list of Bheḍa (§ 12); Charaka prefers the term gaṇḍa-kūṭa, and Suśruta, its shorter alternative gaṇḍa.