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of two hands, two feet and a head takes place. In the sixth month, blood and bile are formed and during the seventh month 700 veins, 500 functional cavities, 9 main pipes (dhamanis) take their shapes. At the end of the seventh month construction of 99 lakhs of hair-holes and 3.5 crores of hairs take place. During the last month the embryo becomes completely ready for independent life.
Tandulaveyāliya and Vicāra-ratnākara show that if the embryo is on the right side in the womb of the mother, its modification takes place as a boy or male and if the embryo is on the left side in the womb, it becomes a girl or female. 11
We find the reproductive period of men and women during life time in Pravacana-säroddhāra and Tandulaveyaliya-payannā. If the longivity is of a hundred years, mostly men and women can reproduce a child from 16 years to 75 years and from 12 years to 55 years respectively.1: The developing time for human embryo is 277 days approximately and Kalpa-Sutra also approves of this fact by giving the developing period of Tirthankaras' embryo in their mothers' womb.13
Fertilization of an egg with a sperm i.e. descending of soul to a woman's womb takes place within 12 muhurtas i.e. 9 hours and 36 minutes
u dahinakucchi purisassa hoi vama u itthiyae ya
--Tandulaveyaliya-payanna, p. 6. Vicara-ratnakara, p. 171. 12 panapannae parenam joni pamilayae mahiliyanam panaittarie parao hoi abiyao naro payam
-Pravacana-saroddhara, p. 402A. pannapannaya parenam joni pamilayae mahiliyanam panasattarii parao paena pumam bhave'bio
-Tandulaveyalia-payanna, p. 4. tatha coktam sthananga tikayammasi masi rajah strinamajasram sravatitryaham vatsarat dvadasaduddhavam yati pancasatah ksayam
---Ibid., p. 5A la dunni aho rattasae simpunne sattasattarim ceva gabbhammi vasai jivo addhamahorattamannam ca 4
-Tandulaveyaliya-payanna, p. 3A. Kalpa-sutra Subodhika, commentary on the last sutra of Part IV.
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