bāhv-aṅghry-ādy-aṅga-vigrahaḥ
peśy aṇḍaṁ vā tataḥ param
On the first night, the semen mixes with blood. By the fifth night, it forms a bubble shape. After ten days, it becomes the size of a hard badarī fruit, and then ball of flesh in the case of womb-born, or an egg in the case of birds.
Kalalam is a mixture of semen and blood. Budbudam is the shape of a bubble. Karkandhū is the shape of a hard badarī fruit.
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māsena tu śiro dvābhyāṁ
bāhv-aṅghry-ādy-aṅga-vigrahaḥ
nakha-lomāsthi-carmāṇi
liṅga-cchidrodbhavas tribhiḥ
By two months, the embryo develops head, arms, legs, and other limbs. By three months, nails, body hair, bones and skin, the genital and sense apertures appear.
By two months the form develops limbs.
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caturbhir dhātavaḥ sapta
pañcabhiḥ kṣut-tṛḍ-udbhavaḥ
ṣaḍbhir jarāyuṇā vītaḥ
kukṣau bhrāmyati dakṣiṇe
By the fourth month, the seven dhātus appear, and by the fifth month hunger and thirst appear. By the sixth month, the skin forms around the embryo and it moves to the right side of the womb.
The body is surrounded (vītaḥ) by the womb covering (jarāyuṇā). The right side is mentioned because the subject being dealt with is a male. It is well know that the male fetus moves to the right and the female fetus moves to the left.
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mātur jagdhānna-pānādyair
edhad-dhātur asammate
śete viṇ-mūtrayor garte
sa jantur jantu-sambhave
Nourishing its dhātus by food and liquids from the mother, the fetus sleeps in the unsuitable hole for stool and urine, where birth takes place.
It is said:
nāḍicāpyāyanī nāmanābhyāṁ tasya nibadhyate
strīṇāṁ tathāntra-śuṣire sa nibaddho ’pajāyate
kramante bhukta-pītānī strīṇāṁ garbhodare tathā
tair āpyāyita deho ’sau jantur vṛddhim upaiti ca
The male fetus is bound up with arteries and veins within the womb of women. All that the women eat and drink passes into the womb. The fetus becomes nourished by this, and it grows. Mārkandeya Purāṇa 11.11
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