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278 See on this subject: D. Kohlbrugge (1946). See also: P. Chatterjee (1978). The interpretation of these characteristics was the domain of specialists, called aṅgavidyāpāṭhaka (see R. Fick, 1974: 148). The prognostic significance of bodily characteristics is dealt with, for example, in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (67: puruṣalakṣaṇa; 68: pañcamahāpuruṣalakṣaṇa; 69: kanyālakṣaṇa).