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87 Cf. Ca.I.6.24. 88 These constitutions are described in the Bṛhatsaṃhitā (67.108–111ab), where they are called sattva, svabhāva and prakṛti, and in Samudra’s Sāmudrikaśāstra (2.61–64ab), where they are called prakṛti. 89 Ḍalhaṇa remarks that some distinguish constitutions dominated by mixtures of the mahābhūtas (see his quotation from an unknown authority). 90 These types of personality are designated by the term kāya(prakṛti) (4.98) or mahāprakṛti (4.99); Ḍalhaṇa (ad 4.81) calls them cittaprakṛti. Cf. Ca.Śā.4.36–40. See R.F.G. Müller (1964b). 91 Compare the aindra type of Caraka. 92 Compare the ārṣa type of Caraka. 93 Cf. Ca.Śā.7.7. Compare the annotated English translation of Su.Śā.5 by K.G.Zysk (1986): 697–705. 94 Cf. Ca.Śā.7.5. 95 Mastaka, the upper part of the head, different from śiras, which is aṇ aṅga, not a pratyaṅga. 96 Cf. Ca.Śā.7.11. 97 These channels serve to transport constituents of the body (see Ḍalhaṇa). 98 The numbers within brackets are absent from the MSS and were supplied for the first time in Hārāṇacandra’s edition of the Suśrutasaṃhitā. Cf. Ca.Śā.7.14. 99 See Su.Śā.4. 100 A vyāma is the distance between the tips of the fingers when both arms are outstretched in a straight line (see Ḍalhaṇa). Compare Cakra ad Ca.Sū.14.43. See also S. Srinivasan (1979): 18. The exact length of a vyāma is 182,88 cm according to Bhagwan Dash and Lalitesh Kashyap (Todara II: 4.233–236), but half that length, 91.44 cm, according to R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash (see their translation of Ca.Sū.14.43). The vyāma is already a current measure of length in Vedic literature (see A.A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith, 1967). 101 Called chidra in the Carakasaṃhitā (Śā.7.12). 102 See Ḍalhaṇa’s comments. 103 Bhishagratna: plexus. 104 The same six kūrcas are found in the Saṃgītaratnākara (1.2.88cd). 105 The same four rajjus are found in the Saṃgītaratnākara (1.2.89ab). 106 Gayadāsa distinguished eight rajjus according to Ḍalhaṇa. 107 The same number is found in the Saṃgītaratnākara (1.2.89cd). 108 These sevaṇīs are the sutures of the cranial bones. 109 These sevaṇīs are the raphes on the lower surface of tongue and penis. 110 The Saṃgītaratnākara (1.2.90ab) mentions two different opinions on these groups of bones (asthirāśi): their number is fourteen or eighteen. 111 Trika often designates the sacral region, but the upper trika (where clavicles and sternum meet) is meant here according to Ḍalhaṇa. 112 The four additional sīmantas are found above the śroṇikāṇḍa, above the chest, at the place where abdomen and thorax meet, and above the aṃsakūṭa (a particular part of the shoulder region) (Ḍalhaṇa). Bhishagratna interprets śroṇikāṇḍa as os sacrum, aṃsakūṭa as the acromial end of the scapula. 113 See Ḍalhaṇa. 114 See for a critical discussion of Suśruta’s osteology: A.F.R. Hoernle (1978).