Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t1.9
Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t1.9
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c7.s7.t1.9
With reference to ‘the five hundred muscles’, the compact mass of flesh, when separated into its several strands, is called muscle. Gayī (or Gayadāsa), however, reads: ‘in the trunk there are sixty; from the neck upwards there are forty.’ . . . . . Vāgbhaṭa the elder, also, says that there are sixty in the trunk.