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Growth is rapid at the end of the embryonic disc and in the fifth month of the embryonic development the head, two arms and two legs bulge forward from the original embryonic five pindas (areas ).29 That is to say, “The head region bulges forward from the original embryonic area. The tail, which even human embryos have at this stage, bulges, to a lesser extent over the posterior end. The sides of the disc grow downward, eventually to form the sides of the body. The embryo becomes elongated, because growth is more rapid at the head and tail ends than laterally."30
In the first month the embryo which is about Karşopam palam31 long is now recognizable as a vertebrate of some kind. It appears that "It has become cylindrical, with a relatively large head region, and with prominent gills and a tail.32 In the second month blocks of muscle (peść ) become a little solid square - like shaped ( ghanā ).33 According to modern Biology, in the month-old embryo "bloc of muscle, known as somites, (i, e. pesi ) are forming rapidly in the mesoderm on either side of the motochord and the beating heart is present as a large bulge on the ventral surface behind the gills. The arms and legs are still mere buds on the sides of the body."34 "By the end of six weeks the embryo is about half an inch long.'35 “At the end of two months of growth, when the embryo is an inch long, it begins to look definitely human,"36 According to Jaina Biology, in the fifth month the head, two arma and two legs develop from the five pindas (mass or areas ) of the embryo.37
But Modern Biology states that at the end of two months of growth, "The face has begun to develop, showing the rudiments of eye, 29. Tassa phalabimțasariā uppalanälovamā bhavai nābhirasaharani jamanie saya
im Nábhie padıbaddhā nābhie tie gabbho oyam aiyai anhayaṁtic oyāc tie
gabbho vivaddhai java jāuti” Tandula Veyaliya, 5, p. 9. 30. Tandula Veyaliya, 2. p. 6. 31. Biology. p. 438, 32. "Padhama māse Karisuņam palam Jayai."
Tandula Veyaliya, 7, p. 6. It is about one fifth of aa ineb long in the 1st month, accordiog to Biology,
p. 348. 33. Biology, p. 438. 34. Tandula Veyaliya, 2, p. 6 “Bie mase pesi samjayae ghaņā" 35. Biology. p. 438. 36. Ibid. 37. Ibid.
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