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Jaina Biology
cavity25 just behind the urinary bladder. Modern Biology state that "it is about the size of a clenched fist and has thick muscular walls and a mucous lining richly supplied with blood vessels."26 From the centre of its lower end (ahomuha) a single muscular tube, the vagina,27 passes to the outside of the body. The vagina 28 serves both as receptacle for the sperm and so must accommodate the penis, and as the birth canal when prenatal development is complete. The uterus29 (yoni) terminates in a muscular ring, (cuyassa mamjari...... mamsassa), i.e. "the cervix, which projects a short distance into the vagina. "30
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Fertilization:
In the act of sexual intercourse or copulation the erect penis is inserted into the vagina, where it ejaculates about 90000031 sperm in the maximum, (200,000,000 sperm, according to modern Biology.)32
In one life or birth (Bhava) there may come one or two or three sperm of a male person in the minimum and 9 lakh sperm in the maximum as issue. Because there takes place the sexual activity called 'mehunavattie' in the heated sex-organs of the female and the male and both of them cause to combine semen (sperm) and blood (egg) into zygote in cohabitation in Yoni (cunnus) by their intercourse. Thus one or two or three sperm in the minimum and nine lakh sperm in the maximum may be ejaculated.33
24. "Kosayaram jonim sampatta sakkamisiya jaya / taiya jivuvaväe / Ibid. "Tassa ya hittha joni ahomuha samthiya kosa (9," Ibid.
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26. Biology, 423: "Tassa ya hittha tarisa u maṁsassa - Tandula Veyaliya, p. 3. 27. "Abomuha samṭṭhiya tassa kosaiya hiṭṭhā cũyassa maṁjari (jārist) tarisā itassa Tandua Veyaliya, p. 3.
28. Cüssssa maṁjari ( jārisi) tärisa u maṁsassa /
te riukale phudiya.. upto taiya jivuvaväe/" Ibid.
29. "Tassa ya hittha joni ahomuha samthiyà kosa", Ibid.
30. Biology, p. 423.
31. "Egajivassya ega bhavaggahanenam jahanneṇam ikko va do va tinni va ukkosenam-sayasahass puhattaṁ jīvanaṁ puttattae havv magacchamti / Itthie ya purisassa ya k mmakadae jonie mehunavattie namam samyoge samup ajjai, duhao sjneham samciņamti ..tattha nam jayaṇnenam....havvaṁāgacchamti", Bhagavati 2. 5, 0.
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"Jivānam parisamkha lakkhapihuttam ca ukkosam" //2/1, Tandula Veyaliyā, p. 4. 32. Blology, p. 424.
33. Bhagavati Sūtră, 2, 5. 105; Tandula Veyaliya, sec also Sutrakṛtānga 11.5.
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