Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t6.10
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t6.10
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6. The system presented in the Atharva Veda (§ 43) agrees in the main with that of Ātreya-Charaka. The central facial bone of the latter system appears in the Atharva Veda divided into two portions, an upper and a lower. The upper portion consists of the two superciliary ridges, and is called lalāṭa, or the brow. The lower portion comprises the body of the superior maxillary together with the malar and nasal bones, and is called kakāṭikā.