A History of Indian Medical Literature v4.c62.108

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161 See on the anatomy of horses and its terminology: W.D. O’Flaherty (1978; see figure 1, illustrating the points of the horse); S.S. Misra (1982): 202–206. Some of the terms occurring in this section are: āsana (the saddle area; 330–331); bhāsala (dock; 345); ghoṇā (the nose; 314); grīvā (crest of the neck; 326); kākasa (the sides of the withers; 328–329); kakṣa (elbow and region of the girth; 339); kakuda (the withers; 329–330); keśānta (the forelock; 327); kroḍa (the area between chest and heart; 333–334); kūrca (the back tendon; 336–337); kuṣṭhikā (the pastern; 337); nigāla (the part of the neck around the jugular furrow; 324, 331); mandira (back of the knee or hock; 352); maṇḍūki (the frog; 338); pālihasta (the front of the cannon bone; 336–337); prapāṇa (the inside of the upper lip; 312–313); protha (the muzzle, the area around the nostrils; 313–314); randhra (the sheath?; 349); sthūra (hock; 351–352); stuva (poll; 321); trika (the area of the back together with the joints of the hind-quarters; 342); uparandhra (the penis?; 349); vaha, vāha (the harness point, between the cest and the point of the shoulder; 325, 328); vakrasakthi (351). See for a discussion of the term maṇḍūki: W.D. O’Flaherty (1978).