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VISHNU.
XCVI, 58.
58. There are twenty nails.
59. There are as many bones to the hands and feet (one at the root of each finger and toe).
60. There are sixty joints to the fingers and toes. 61. There are two (bones) to the two heels. 62. There are four to the ancles. 63. There are four to the elbows. 64. There are two to the shanks. -
65. There are two to the knees and two to the cheeks.
66. (There are two) to the thighs and (two) to the shoulders.
67. (There are two) to the lower part of the temples, (two) to the palate, and (two) to the hips.
68. There is one bone to the organs of generation.
69. The backbone consists of forty-five (bones). 70. The neck consists of fifteen (bones).
71. The collar-bone consists of one (bone on each side).
72. The jaw likewise. 73. There are two (bones) at its root.
74. There are two (bones) to the forehead, (two) to the eyes, and (two) to the cheeks.
75. The nose has one bone, the nose-bone.
76. The ribs together with the joints called 'arbuda, and with the joints called 'sthânaka,' consist of seventy-two (bones).
77. The breast contains seventeen bones.
76. There are thirteen ribs to each flank, which makes in all twenty-six ribs. There are twenty joints to them in the breast, called “arbuda," and twenty-six joints in the back, called "sthånaka," which makes a total of seventy-two bones.' (Nand.)
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