法苑珠林 69.9

69.9

如善見律云。女人將欲受胎。月華水出。華水者。此是血名。欲懷胎時。於兒胞處生一血聚。七日自破。從此而出。若血出不斷者。男精不住。即共流出。若盡出者。以男精還復其處。然後成胎。故血盡已男精得住。即便有胎。又女人有七事受胎。一相觸。二取衣。三下精。四手摩。五見色。六聞聲。七嗅香。問何謂相觸受胎。答有女人月水生時喜樂男子。若男子以身觸其身分。即生貪著而便懷胎。問何謂取衣受胎。答如優陀夷共婦出家。欲愛不止各相發問。欲精污衣。尼取舐之。復取內根。即便懷胎。問何謂下精受胎。答如鹿母嗅道士精。欲心而飲。遂便懷胎生鹿子道士。問何謂手摩受胎。答如睒菩薩父母俱盲。帝釋遙知下來其所。為夫婦既悉出家為道。不合陰陽。以手摩臍下。即便懷胎而生睒子。問何謂見色受胎。答有一女人。月華水成不得男子合。欲情極盛唯視男子。如宮女人亦復如是。即便懷胎。問何謂聞聲受胎。答如白鷺鳥悉雌無雄。到春節時陽氣始布。雷鳴初發。雌鷺一心聞聲便即懷胎。雞亦有聞雄雞聲亦得懷胎。問何謂嗅香受胎。答如秦牛母但嗅犢氣而亦懷子。

As the Samantapāsādikā states: When a woman is about to conceive, the monthly flower water emerges. 'Flower water' is a name for blood. When she is about to conceive, a mass of blood forms at the place of the fetal womb, which bursts naturally after seven days and flows out from there. If the flow of blood does not cease, the male semen does not remain, but flows out together with it. If it has completely flowed out, the male semen returns to that place, and thereafter the fetus is formed. Therefore, after the blood is exhausted and the male semen is able to remain, there is immediately conception. Furthermore, a woman conceives through seven circumstances: first, mutual contact; second, taking garments; third, emission of semen; fourth, stroking with the hand; fifth, seeing forms; sixth, hearing sounds; seventh, smelling fragrance. Question: What is meant by conceiving through mutual contact? Answer: When a woman's monthly flow arises and she takes delight in a man, if the man touches her body with his body, lustful attachment arises immediately and she conceives. Question: What is meant by conceiving through taking garments? Answer: As when Udāyin and his wife left the household life, their sensual desires did not cease and they questioned each other; when lustful semen stained the garment, the nun took and licked it, and further took and placed it inside her organ, whereupon she conceived. Question: What is meant by conceiving through emission of semen? Answer: As when the doe-mother smelled the semen of a practitioner of the Way, drank it with a mind of desire, and consequently conceived and gave birth to the doe-child practitioner of the Way. Question: What is meant by conceiving through stroking with the hand? Answer: As when the parents of the Bodhisattva Śyāma were both blind, and Śakra, knowing this from afar, descended to their abode; because the couple had both left the household life for the Way and would not engage in sexual intercourse, he stroked below the navel with his hand, whereupon she conceived and gave birth to Śyāma. Question: What is meant by conceiving through seeing forms? Answer: There was a woman whose monthly flower water had formed, but unable to unite with a man, her lustful desire became extremely intense and she only gazed at a man; like palace women who are also like this, she immediately conceived. Question: What is meant by conceiving through hearing sounds? Answer: Like egrets, which are all female without males: when the spring season arrives, the yang qi begins to spread, and thunder first sounds; the female egret single-mindedly hears the sound and immediately conceives. Hens also, upon hearing the sound of a rooster, can likewise conceive. Question: What is meant by conceiving through smelling fragrance? Answer: As the Qin cow-mother merely smelled the scent of a bull calf and likewise became pregnant with a calf.