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of the abdominal cavity 13 between the hips. Each of the pairs of fallopian tubes coviducts( = siradugam) is about the size and shape of a pupphanaliyagaram (lotus stalk? ).14
The reference to Rtukala (menstruation period) every month 15 after reaching the puberty and the discharge of menstrual blood16 for three days17 each month, the closing of yoni (uterus) after 12 muhurtas and its occurrence each month18 upto 55 years19 in Jaina Biology is suggestive that "when a girl reaches puberty there are many thousand eggs in each of her ovaries. Aparently no new ones are ever produced thereafter."20
Since normally a woman ovulates thirteen times a year and but a single egg ripens each month,21 "only 400 or so of these eggs ever reach maturity and escape from the ovary, the rest degenerate and are absorbed.
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According to modern Biology, the ovaries alterate in releasing their eggs, but the alteration is irregular and unpredictable.
Jaina Biology, explains that the egg is released into the abdominal cavity at the time of ovulation,22 whence it passes into one of two tubes called the oviducts (sirādugam)23 or fallopian tubes. The oviducts empty directly into the upper corners of a kośa-shaped organ, the uterus or womb which houses the developing embryo until the time of birth.24 This organ lies in the middle of the lower part of the abdominal
13. Tandula Veyaliya, p. 3
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid (riukāla).
16. Ibid.
"Te riukale phuḍiya soniyalavaya Vimoyamts".
17. Ibid, Tā mañjarayaḥ strīṇām māsānte, yadajasramiśram dinaṭrayam gravati".
18. Masi māsi rajaḥ strīņāṁ ajasram śravati tryaham Vatsarai
Ibid, p. 4, see Sthananga tikā,
19. "Panapannaya pareṇam yoni pamilayae /", 1bid., p. 4.
"Yati panñcasataḥ kṣayam, Sthanangatika vide Ibid., p. 4.
20. Biology, p. 423.
21/a Ibid.
21/b Ibid.
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22. "Itthie nabhihittha siradugam pupphanaliyaliyaliyagaraṁ / tassa ya hittha Joni ahomuha samṭṭiya kosa // 9 // tassaya hittha cũyassa mamjari (järisi) tārisā u mamsassa" etc. "Te riukale phudiya soniyalavaya vimoyamti /" Tandula Veyaliya, p. 3.
23. "Itthie nabhihittha siradugam pupphanaliyaggram /", Ibid.
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