Studies in the Medicine of Ancient India, Part I: Osteology, or the Bones of the Human Body c7.s7.t4.9

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There is nothing like this statement in that portion of *Charaka*'s text-book, which was composed by *Charaka* himself. In the complement of that work made by *Dṛḍhabala*, however, there occurs, in the *Chikitsita Sthāna*, ch. XIX, verse 14 (Jīv. ed., 1896, p. 656), a similar statement, which is based on *Vāgbhaṭa* I's account of the subject in his *Aṣṭāṅga Saṃgraha*, *Śārīra Sthāna*, ch. VI (ed., vol. I, p. 231, l. 12), and which is quoted by *Aruṇadatta*, as *Dṛḍhabala*'s statement, in his commentary on *Vāgbhaṭa* II's *Aṣṭāṅga Hṛdaya*, *Śārīra Sthāna*, ch. III, verses 62 *a* and 63 *b* (1st ed., vol. I, p. 569). This statement runs as follows: