Procedure for conception

A man with pure semen who has kept celibacy for a month unites with care with a woman with pure artava from the fourth-day bath onward; the commentary explains that the first three days are left out and the time runs to the tenth or twelfth day, and that for a son the even nights (fourth, sixth, eighth, tenth) and for a daughter the odd nights (fifth, seventh, ninth) are chosen. A footnote gives a variant reading.