Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t7.18

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c7.s4.t7.18

[Verse 88.] The pubic (*bhagāsthi*) or private bone is one. In the back (*pṛṣṭha*) there are forty-five bones; in the neck (*grīvā*) fifteen; in the windpipe (*jatru*), at the joint of the breast and shoulder, one. *Hanu* signifies the chin; that also consists of one bone. This makes sixty-three bones; and with the aforesaid number (194) the total amounts to two hundred and fifty-seven. Further:

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