Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s4.t7.20

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[Verse 90.] The two temples (*śaṅkha*) are the two places intermediate between the eyebrows and the ears. The pan-shaped bones (*kapāla*) which constitute the cranium number four . . . *Uras* signifies the breast; it contains seventeen bones. Hence we have altogether twenty-three; and these, together with the previously numbered (337), amount to a total of three hundred and sixty. This makes up the aggregate number of bones of the human skeleton.