Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s5.t4: § 92. The Osteological Summary in the Bhāva Prakāśa
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s5.t4
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§ 92. The Osteological Summary in the Bhāva Prakāśa
c7.s5.t4.1
The statement of the osteological system of Suśruta in the Bhāva Prakāśa, extracted from the edition of Jīvānanda of 1875 (pp. 40, 41), runs as follows:
c7.s5.t4.2
Śalya-tantre ’sthi-khaṇḍānāṁ śata-trayam=udāhṛtam |
tāny=ev=ātra nigadyante, teṣāṁ sthānāni yāni ca ||
Sa-viṁśati-śataṁ tv=asthnāṁ śākhāsu kathitaṁ budhaiḥ |
pārśvayoḥ śroṇi-phalake vakṣaḥ-pṛṣṭh-odareṣu ca ||
Jāniyād=bhiṣag=eteṣu śataṁ saptadaś-ottaram |
grīvāyām=ūrdhvagāṁ vidyād=asthnāṁ ṣaṣṭiṁ tri-samyutām ||
c7.s5.t4.3
For the translation, see § 36.
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- Bhāvaprakāśa — Bhāvamiśra 1550, Sanskrit