Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t7.14

c7.s4.t7.14

[Verse 85.] Detailing the said number of bones the author says: the teeth (danta) are thirty-two; thirty-two are also their socket-bones, termed sthāla; hence the teeth, together with their sockets, amount to sixty-four . . . . . The nails (nakha) number twenty. The long bones (śalākā) form the bases of the fingers of the hands and feet; they also number twenty. The bases (sthāna) of the long bones number four². Thus we have altogether one hundred and eight bones.