How the body appears in the womb (in champakamālā metre)

After conception the embryo becomes kalala in ten days, turbid in another ten and firm in another ten; in the following months it becomes bubble-like and then somewhat solid; in the fifth month the flesh enlarges from outside, in the sixth the limbs are formed, in the seventh skin, nails and hair appear, and in the eighth the opening of the head becomes distinct and pulsates. The child is born in the ninth or tenth month; if it does not emerge within ten months, a disorder is to be understood. A footnote gives a variant reading for the fifth-month line.