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As the Samantapāsādikā states: When a woman is about to conceive, at the time the 'monthly flower-water' issues forth—this is the name for blood. When she is about to become pregnant, a mass of blood forms at the womb, which naturally breaks open after seven days and issues from there. If the flow of blood does not cease, the male semen does not remain, but flows out along with it. If it has finished discharging, the male semen returns to its place, and thereafter a fetus is formed. Therefore, when the blood is exhausted, the male semen is able to remain, and then conception occurs. Furthermore, there are seven ways a woman conceives: first, through physical touch; second, through taking clothes; third, through emitting semen; fourth, through stroking with the hand; fifth, through seeing forms; sixth, through hearing sounds; seventh, through smelling scents. Question: What is meant by conceiving through physical touch? Answer: There was a woman who, when her menses arose, took delight in a man; if a man touched parts of her body with his body, she gave rise to craving and thereupon conceived. Question: What is meant by conceiving through taking clothes? Answer: Like Udāyin who went forth into the religious life together with his wife; their lustful craving did not cease, and they questioned each other; lustful semen soiled his clothes, and the nun took it and licked it, and further inserted it into her organ, whereupon she conceived. Question: What is meant by conceiving through emitting semen? Answer: Like the mother of Mṛgāra who ate an ascetic's semen; drinking it with lustful intent, she thereupon conceived and gave birth to the ascetic Mṛgāraputra. Question: What is meant by conceiving through stroking with the hand? Answer: Like the parents of the Bodhisattva Śyāma, who were both blind; Śakra knew beforehand, descended to their place, and made them husband and wife; having both gone forth to practice the Way, they did not engage in sexual union, but stroking below the navel with the hand, 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 who could not unite with a man; her lustful passions were extremely intense, and she merely gazed at a man—as is also the case with women in the palace—and thereupon conceived. Question: What is meant by conceiving through hearing sounds? Answer: Like egrets, which are all female without males; when the spring season arrives, yang qi begins to spread and thunder first rumbles, the female egret single-mindedly hears the sound and thereupon conceives. Hens also, upon hearing the sound of a rooster, can conceive. Question: What is meant by conceiving through smelling scents? Answer: Like cows that only smell the scent of a calf and thereby also conceive a young.