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Jaina Biology According to Modern Biology “The bloods of the mother and foetus do not mix at all in the placenta or any other place, the blood of the foetus in the capillaries of the chorionic villi come in close contract with the mother's blood in the tissues between the villi, but they are always separated by a membrrne, through which substances must diffuse or be transporated by some active energy-requiring process ''57
It is suggestive from the statement in Jaina Biology. “The foetus transforms whatever nutritive substance it takes from the mother's body into the five sense organs, bone marrow, hair, etc.58 and makes respiration 59 but it does not pass stool nor urine, 60 etc., like the living man "that the placenta (mātrjivara saharni) is an important endocrine gland serving as the nutrive, respirative and excretory organ of the foetus”. 61
It is natural that the uterus (yoni) increases in size as the foetus grows and by the end of nine months its mass is twenty four times as great as the beginning of pregnancy" 62 Within the uterus the foetus assumes a characteristic foetal position with elbows, hips and knees bent, arms and legs crossed' back curved and head bowed, and turned to one side, as suggested by the statement in Jaina Biology that the foetus in the mother's womb exists like an umbrella or the side ribs of human body, 63 it is like hunch-backed (crooked shaped) mango (ambakbujjae) and also it stays standing, sitting and lying there.64 56/a Biology p. 426. 57. Maujivarasahasaņi puttajivarasa harani maujivapadibaddha puttajivam phuda
tamhā āhārei tamha pariņāmei avarāvi nam puttajivapadibddha Maujiva phuda
tamha ciņāi" Ibid 5 p. 9. 58. Tassa phalabimtasarisā uppa lanálovamā bhavai nābhirasa harani Jaņaņie saya in
babbia padībaddhā nabhie tise gabbha ayam āsyai anhaya mtic oyāe tise gabbho
vivaddhai java jāutti / Tandula Veyaliya p. 9. 59. Biology, p. 427. 69. Jivassa ņam bha mte, gabbhagayassa samaņassa atthi uccărei vā pasavanei vā
khilei va....ng ina the samaythe, jive nam gabbhagae samane ja abaram āhārei tam cināi soimdiyattae etc. upto nahattāe /" Natthi uccărei vā Jāva
soņei vă (3)" Tabdula Veyaliya p. 7. 61. Jive naṁ gabbhagae samāṇc savvao ahārei savvao pariņāmei savvao usāsei savvao
usāsei savvao pisasei abhikkhanaṁ ahārei abhikkhaņam pariņāmei abhikkhanam usasei, disasai māurivarasa hari ni puttajivara saharani maujivapadibaddhā. Tandula
Veyaliya 4. p. 9. 62. Ibid, 3, p. 7. 63. Biology, p, 427. 64. Biology 427.
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