Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t7.19

c7.s4.t7.19

[Verse 89.] At the back of that bone [i.e. of the chin] there are two bones. Next, the brow contains one bone. Next, in the two eyes, there are two bones; so also there are two in the two *gaṇḍa*, by which term the two places intermediate between the cheeks and the eyes are meant. The nose must be understood to be expressed also by the term *ghana*-bone. *Parśuka* denotes the ribs; these, together with their sockets (*sthālaka*) and the so-called tubercles (*arbuda*), number seventy-two. With the previous eight bones they amount to eighty; and these, together with the previously stated number (257), amount to three hundred and thirty-seven. Further: