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Study question (generated from the text)
It becomes kalala in ten days, turbid in ten more and firm in ten more, then bubble-like and solid in the following months; flesh grows in the fifth month, limbs in the sixth, skin, nails and hair in the seventh, and the head's opening pulsates in the eighth; birth comes in the ninth or tenth month. Until the seventh month it absorbs juices from the mother's food all around; after that it feeds through a navel cord.
Detailed answer
Verse 48 says the semen mixes with the woman's blood in the womb and the soul enters by its karma; verses 51-52 say the joined mass gains the six capacities within an antarmuhūrta and takes bodily form. Verses 53-54 give the timeline, adding that if the child is not born within ten months a disorder is to be understood. Verses 55-57 say the child lies wrapped in the jarāyu between stomach, intestine and rectum, drinks the pitta- and kapha-rich juices formed from the mother's food like a corpse in a water pot, and after seven months receives nourishment through a lotus-stalk-like navel cord that the commentary connects to the mother's heart; birth may go well or end in the death of the child or even the mother.
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- Question
- Source pages with records
- 3
- Pages naming it
- 0
- Chapters
- Chapter 2
- Extraction tasks
- T02
- Record id
- qa_T02_08