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Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t14.7

Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t14.7

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c7.s4.t14.7

[Verse 129.] There are sixty bones in the digits (*aṅguli*); two in the heels (*pārṣṇi*), and four in the ankles (*gulpha*). There are four bones in the forearms (*aratnikā*), and there are as many in the legs (*jaṅghā*).