Sexual Life in Ancient India: A Study in the Comparative History of Indian Culture v2.c13.39

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told : " After the fifth month the fœtus has all its limbs; through the strength of the wind it is driven to the mother-gate (yonidvāra) and born, with the legs up, the head down " (xi, 4.2 ff.). xii, 320.17, therefore, should probably, instead of " After the ninth month is fulfilled, name and form comes into being, etc.," which indeed sounds strange, be translated : " When the child after the ninth month is fulfilled has been born, then its individuality becomes known, whether it is a boy or a girl, according to the marks of sex." Jāyate therefore = comes to light (or perhaps is to be altogether changed to jñāyate); hardly: " it is born into individuality (or even : the phenomenal world)," although jāyate with such an accusative would not be un-Epic.