Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t6.7
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s3.t6.7
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4. As to Vāgbhaṭa I, he follows his usual practice of compromise. With Suśruta he holds the separate existence of two nasal, two malar, and two maxillary bones, and with Ātreya-Charaka the separate existence of the superior alveolar process. In the main, therefore, his system agrees with the system of Suśruta, the only difference being that (as already pointed out in § 65, cl. 5) he divides the superior maxillary horizontally into two separate bones, an upper and a lower, the upper being the ‘body’ (*hanu-bandhana*), and the lower the alveolar process (*dant-olūkhala*), that is, K and A in Fig. 32. It is a difference which indicates a distinct decadence in anatomical knowledge.