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 goes towards proving the high antiquity of the Charaka.

Again, only Vedic gods and mantras figure in the Charaka, not a trace of Pauranic mythology being discernible in it. Charaka follows closely the Vedic authorityNamely 360; Sáríra. Ch. VII, 5. According to the Institutes of Vishnu "it (the human frame) is kept together by three in counting the number of bones in the human body; the