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When the mother sleeps, wakes up, and becomes happy and unhappy the foetus also sleeps, wakes up and becomes happy and unhappy 65 respectively.
A child is born after the complete course of pregnancy of full nine months and seven and a half nights and days,66 At the time of delivery if it comes out, being led first by the head or feet, it comes out in right way, if it comes out crosswise, it attains death.67 That is to say "At birth the foetus usually is turned head doanward so that its head emerges first, but occasionally the buttocks or feet are presented first, making delivery more difficult.68
65. "Gabbhagae samane uttanac vă pasillae vă ambakhujjae và acchijja vă chitthijja
vā nisiijja vă tuyaujja Vā āsaijja vā upto dukkhio bhavai (9)", Bhagavati 1.7.61.
Tandula Veyaliya, 9, p. 13. 66. Ibid. 67. Ibid. 68. Bhagavati Sūtra 1.7.67; Tandula Veyaliya, p. 13. 69. Bhagvati, 1.7.22 Aha ņam pasavanakala samayaṁsisiseņa vā päehim va agacchai
samagacchai tiriyamāgacchai viņighayamăvajjai" Tandula Veyaliya 9, p. 13. (1) 70. Biology, p. 427.
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