Scientific Secrets of Jainism

Author(s): Nandighoshvijay
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad

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Scientific Secrets of Jainism
The speciality of the Yoni (female organ) has been described in the ninth chapter of the Pannavaņāsuttam? and in the third chapter of the Thānangasuttam. It is of three types : (1) Kūrmānnată, (2) Sarkhāvartta and (3) Vamsipatrā. The terms denoting these three types of Yoni are descrptive and self-explanatory. The term Kūrmõnnatā suggests its tortoise like curve, the term Sankhāvartta suggests its conch like coiled shape and the term Vamsipatrā suggests its resemblance to bamboo leaf.
The Kūrmānnatā Yõnis give birth to great personalities such as Tirthankaras, Cakravartis and Vāsudēvas. Striratna (Chief queen of Cakravarti ) has invariably the Sankhāvartta Yöni. Many living beings descend to this Yoni but they invariably die before their actual birth. That is, none is born from this Yoni. Ācārya Malayagiri records an old view that Striratna's embryo gets destroyed on account of excessive heat of her sex passion. (Prajñāpanā-Țikā, folio 228 A). Generally women have Yonis of Vamsipatrā.
We find in the Bhagavat isūtra (Šataka-2, uddēšaka-5), the Pravacana Sāröddhāra (p. 296) and the Tandulavēyāliya Payannā that on account of gaseous trouble or if some devil makes the embryo stable, it could live for 12 years at the most. After that period the embryo dies or takes a birth through a vulva.
On account of sinful actions of previous births one could live as an embryo for a maximum period of 24 years by descending again to the same embryo after the first twelve years. In Jain treatises, technically it is called Kāyasthiti of embryo.
Tandulavēyāliya Payannā and Vicāraratnäkara of Sri Kirtivijaya Upādhyāya describes the developing process of human embryo during different months of pregnancy." In the first week of pregnancy sperms and blood combine to form a liquid solution and in the second week it becomes more solid, in the third week tissues multiply in number. At the end of the first month, the weight of the embryo rises to three Karşas i.e. 48 Māşās or 240 Guñjās. During the second month, the embryo looks like a cubic piece of tissues and develops into a more solid form. In the third month the mother desires things because of the embryo. During the fourth month of pregnancy, different parts of the mother's body such as mammary glands get nourished. In the