Life in Ancient India as Depicted in the Jain Canons, with Commentaries: An Administrative, Economic, Social and Geographical Survey c12.s12.6

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⁹⁹ Bṛh Bhā 3 4128-39 Here the five ways are mentioned which could cause pregnancy without sexual intercourse (a) if a woman sat without cover at the place where a man had discharged semen which could cause pregnancy, (b) if a person desirous of a son introduces semen in her vagina, (c) if the same thing is done by her father-in-law, (d) if the semen was sticking to some cloth that was used to cover vagina to stop the flow of menstrual blood and (e) drinking of water mixed with semen could cause pregnancy (ibid 4139) Cf the Mātanga Jātaka (IV No 497) p, 378 where the Mātanga touched his thumb to the navel of his wife and she conceived, also Vinaya II, p. 205 f, also Dhammapada A III, p 145 In Buddhist literature we hear of the nun Uppalavannā, who was raped by a young brahmacārin in the grove of Andhavana in Sāvatthi, and it is said that from that time nuns did not live in Andhavana (ibid, II, pp 49, 52)