सङ्गीतरत्नाकर: प्रथम भाग (शार्ङ्गदेव - स्वरगताध्याय सविस्तार व्याख्या व अनुवाद सहित)

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72 Treatment of Svara
बहिर्मलवहानि स्युनंव स्रोतांसि देहिनाम् ।
स्त्रीणां त्रीण्यधिकानि स्युः स्तनयोर्द्वे भगे ऽसृजः ॥८७॥
8. जालानि, कूर्चाः, मांसरज्जवः, सीवन्यश्च
अस्थिस्नायुसिरामांसस्थानि जालानि षोडश ।
षट् कूर्चाः करयोरङ्घ्योः कन्धरायां च मेहने ॥८८॥
पार्श्वयोः पृष्ठवंशस्य चतस्रो मांसरज्जवः ।
सीवन्यः पञ्च शिरसि द्वे जिह्वालिङ्गयोर्मते ॥८९॥
ears, eyes, nostrils, mouth, anus and urethra; but the females
have three more; two breasts (milk channels) and the one
that carries off the menstrual discharge.
8. Plexuses, clusters, fleshy bands and sutures : 88-89
There are in all sixteen plexuses¹ situated around
bones, ligaments, veins² and flesh; six clusters³—two in the
hands, two in feet and one each in the neck and penis; four
fleshy bands⁴ on the two sides of the backbone; five sutures⁵
in the head, one in the tongue and one in the genitals.
(88-89)
Suśruta speaks of four kinds of plexuses, i. e. jāla-s, viz. muscular,
vascular, ligamentous and bony. One each of the four kinds is found
about each of the wrists and the ankles. All the four kinds of plexuses
intermingle and cross one another to form a network. The word jāla
literally means a network and the whole body is a network of plexuses
as it were (cf., Śā. Sthā. 5.11).

1. Jāla-s : cf. Suśruta Śā. Sthā. 5.11.
2. Sirā of the text here means any tubular vessel such as vein,
   artery, nerve, etc.
3. Kūrca (lit. a brush), the clusters or groups may be made up of
   muscles, bones, vessels and ligamentous structure (cf. K. K.
   Bhishagratna, p. 162).
4. Māṁsarajju are muscular cords originating from either side
   of the spinal column. These are identified by Ghanekar (cf.
   Vol. 2, p 145) with Longissimus, Spinalis and Ilio-costalis.
5. Bhishagratna defines sīvanī as the central tendinous band which
   looks like a structure from which the muscles on the either side
   arise. Ghanekar names the sutures as, metopic suture, coronal
   suture, lambdoid suture, sagittal suture, squamosal suture and
   anococcygeal raphe.

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Section 2 : The Genesis of the Human Embodiment 73
9. अस्थीनि, तेषां सङ्ख्या भेदाश्च
चतुर्दशाष्टादश वा संमता अस्थिराशयः ।
अस्थ्नां शरीरे संख्या स्यात्षष्टियुक्तं शतत्रयम् ॥९०॥
वलयानि कपालानि रुचकास्तरुणानि च ।
नलकानीति तान्याहुः पञ्चधा ऽस्थीनि सूरयः ॥९१॥
त्रीण्येवास्थिशतान्यत्र धन्वन्तरिरभाषत ।
9. Bones, their number and types : 90-92b
The group-units¹ of bones are believed to be fourteen
or eighteen. The total number of bones in the body is three
hundred and sixty. (90)
The sages have classified the bones into five types, viz.,
valaya,² kapāla³, rucaka⁴, taruṇa⁵ and nalaka⁶. (91)
According to āyurveda the total number of bones in the body is
three hundred and sixty; but according to the works of surgery, i. e.
Suśruta etc. there are only three hundred bones in the whole body (cf.
Suśruta Śā. Sthā. 5.17, where it is said that, "One hundred and twenty
bones are to be found in the four extremities, one hundred and seventeen
in pelvis, sides, back, chest and abdominal region; and sixty-three are
located in the neck and the regions above that.").
Suśruta mentions only fourteen group-units, i. e , the collections
of bones which are found in the two ankles, the two knees and the two
groins, the two wrists, two elbows, two axillas, one in cranium and the
other in the sacral region.

1. Saṅghāta is a collection with integrity, i. e., a group working
   as a unit.
2. Valaya type includes bones found in the palm, foot, sides, back,
   chest and the abdominal region.
3. Kapāla type includes the bones situated in the knee joints,
   shoulders, hips, cheeks, palate, temples and the cranium.
4. Teeth form the rucaka type.
5. Taruṇa type includes the bones in the nose, ears, throat and
   the socket of the eyes.
6. Nalaka type of bones, as their name implies, are all the remain-
   ing ones of the cylindrical shape.
   cf. Suśruta Śā. Sthā. 5.21 and Bhishagratna, pp. 165, 166
   for further details.