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 fused o anoastomised into one whole during adult life, have been separately enumerated — a circumstance which may, to some extent, account for the excess in the number of bon'es described in this Samhitá (1). Likewise the theory that Sushruta might have included the teeth and the cartilages within the list of skeletal bones comes very near the truth, but It does not reflect the whole truth either. The fact is that the orignial Sushruta Samhita has passed through several recensions; and we have reasons to believe that the present one by Nagarjuna is neither the only nor the last one made. The redactors, according to their own light, have made many interpolations in the text, and when Brahmanas, they have tried to come to a sort of compromise at points of disagreement with the teachings of the Vedas (2). Therefore it is that we come across such statements in the Samhita as "there are 360 bones in the human body, so it is in the Vedas, but the science of surgery recognises three hundred skeletal bones." What lends a greater colour to the hypothesis is that Sushruta, who, in the Chapter on Marma Shariram, has so accurately described the unions of bones and ligaments, anastomoses of nerves, veins and arteries etc.,