The Garuda Purana

the attributes of supreme divinity or Brahma the ultimate reality or creator god, and to equip its members with a complete code of rituals, law and other necessary informations regarding the incidents of every day life, subservient to, and in conformity with, the Vedas the most ancient sacred scriptures of Hinduism and the Vedic literature. Thus each schism or faction, or more correctly, each Purana Ancient Narrative, the scripture of each sect of special, tutelary divinities, became a new school of law, medicine and metaphysics, etc., re-instating the old errors of the Vedic literature, as if to ignore the many advanced truths and principles of the later day Buddhist science, and to confirm the victory of Brahmanism even in error and fallacy.

The description of the incidents of the life of Buddha, however meagre and incidental it might be, and the occurrence of the name of Sushruta A legendary ancient Indian physician and surgeon, often regarded as the "Father of Surgery." in the medical portion of the Garuda Purana leaves not the slightest doubt that its author was intimately acquainted with the Buddhist literature of the age, both medical and metaphysical. It is a settled fact of history that the Sushruta Samhita, at least the recension of the Sushruta Samhita by the Buddhist Nagarjuna A highly influential Buddhist philosopher and scholar who is traditionally credited with refining and editing the primary surgical text of India., was written in the second century before the birth of Christ. Now, the Sushruta Samhita says that, the number of bones in the human body is three hundred. The Vishnu Smriti Institutes of Vishnu following the orthodox (Vedic) non-medical opinion on the subject gives it as three hundred and sixty-six.

We know that Nagarjuna, the Buddhist redactor of the Sushruta Samhita, mentioned in his recension of the work that there are "three hundred bones in the human organism, Likely a printing error for 'organism'. but the followers of the Vedas say that their number is three hundred and sixty" which tallies with the number given in the Yajnavalkya Samhita An important legal and religious text of the Hindu tradition, likely composed between the 3rd and 5th centuries CE.. The Garuda Purana gives the number as three hundred and sixty two—"The bones are said to be three hundred and sixty-two" original Sanskrit: Asthnám Duyadhikam Proktam Sashthyadhika S'atatrayam—a sort of compromise between the Vedic and the Buddhist osteology the scientific study of bones, or between the dictates of conscience, imperatively