A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v1.c9.s1.26

v1.c9.s1.26

Again, only Vedic gods and mantras figure in the Charaka, not a trace of Pauranic mythology being discernible in it.² Charaka follows closely the Vedic authority³ in counting the number of bones in the human body; the limit of childhood he takes to be thirty years—quite in keeping with the conception of the heroic age.