Counting bones, joints and related structures

The body is said to have 300 bones, 300 joints, 900 sinews (snāyu), 700 veins (sirā) and 500 muscles (peśī). An editor's footnote objects that there cannot be as many joints as bones, since one joint joins two bones, notes that Suśruta gives 300 bones and 210 joints, and judges the reading, found in all three manuscripts, to be a scribal error.