Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t2.7

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Triṇīty-ādi | asthnāṁ ṣaṣṭy-adhikāni śatāni nṛṇām-iti | nanu śalya-tantre triṇī śatāny-asthnām-ity-uktam | katham-iha ṣaṣṭy-adhikāni ity-ata āha | sah-ety-ādi | śalya-tantre Suśrute 'py-uktam | triṇī sa-ṣaṣṭāny-asthi-śatāni veda-vādino bhāṣante | śalya-tantreṣu yeṣām-asthnām viśeṣeṇa śastra-kriyā cikitsite nāsti, tāni ṣaṣṭy-asthīni nopadiśyante | na tu ‘na santi’ iti kṛtvā nopadiśyante | tāni ca ṣaṣṭir-asthnām-eṣā | dant-olūkhala-nakha-jatrv-asthīni ṣaṣṭis¹ taiḥ saha triṇī śatāni bhavanty-asthnām-iti | tāni vivṛṇoti ||