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functional lungs of the foetus as explained in Modern Biology;63 according to which, not much blood passes through the embryonic lungs. "In the foetus only a small amount of blood passas through the embryonic lungs, to the left atrium."64
Thus Jain Biology reveals that reproduction involves many complex and interdependent processes, the elaboration of sukrasonita ( semenblood )65 which regulate the development of the gonads66 (Janapagranthis) of secondary sex structures67 and the production of gametes68 in the parents; behaviour pattern 569 which bring the parents together to release their gametes at such a time and in such a place that their union is probable70; the union of male and female pronuclei71 followed
63. Biology, p. 441 64. Ibid. 65. Tandula Veyaliya. 66. "Itthie ya purusassa ya Kammakaļãe Jonie mehuņavattie nānam samyoe
samuppajjai", Bhagavati, 2.5.105 Joņi ahomuhá samthiya kosa / tassa ya hittha cuyassa mamjari (jārisi) tarisă mamsassa / te riukāle phudiya / Tandula
Veyaliya, p. 3. 67. "Itthie näbhi hitthā sirādugan pupphapälıyāgāram / t-ssa ya hithā Joņi
ahomuhà santhiya kosä," tassa ya bitphā cūyassa mamjari (jārisi ) tārisau mamsassa / te riukāle phuậiya soņiyalavayā vimoyamti 10 Tandula Veyā
liya, p 3. 68. "Kosāyāram jcnim rampatta sukkamisiyā jaiyal taiya jivuva Väe jigga
bhamiyä jiņimdehim / Tandula Veyaliya, p. 3. 69. “Pancahim țhāņehimithi puriseņa saddhim asamvasaņāṇivi gabbhara dharejjá,
tam. Itthi duvvippayadã dunṁsanna sukkapoggale adhitthijja / sukkapoggale adhitthijja / sukkapoggalasamsatthe va se vatthe arto jonie anupavesejjā 2 sayam se sukkapoggale anupavasejja 3 paro va se sukkapoggale aņ pavesejja 4 siodagaviyadena Vä se āyamamäņie sukhapaggale aņupavesejja 5 icceteaim pamcajavad harejja" Sthāpānga Sūtra 5 vide Tandula Veyaliya p. 3-4. Itthie purisaesa ya Kammakadoc Joņie attha nam mahunavattiyae (va) nāmām samjoge samppajjai, duhaovi sineham samciņa mti, /" Sūtrakrtanga II, 2. 56., p. 98. "Te rudbirabindavah kośākāram yoņim samprāptāḥ santah sukramisritāḥ ftudinatrayante puruşasamyogena apurussasamyogena vă puruşaviryeņa militāḥ yadā bhavanti tadă Jivotpade garbhasambhūtilaksne yogya bhaniiāli Tapdula Veyaliya, p. 3.
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