The Doctrine of the Jainas, Described after the Old Sources c8.67

c8.67

§65. As coarse as all these conceptions are, so is the human anatomy (Tand. 35b). Apart from the quantities of liquids and other bodily items which can be omitted here, the human being has 700 veins. Starting from the navel 160 each extend upwards, downwards into the legs, downwards into the abdomen, and horizontally; 25 each contain mucus and gall, 10 contain sperm. Furthermore there are 900 sinews, 500 muscles, 900 vessels, 9.9 million hairpores, not counting the hair of the skull and the beard, and 33 million including the latter. Some figures concerning women and hermaphrodites slightly differ in giving them 670 and 680 veins, resp., and 470 and 480 muscles, resp. Moreover, we learn that the male is furnished with 5 and the female with 6 inner organs (koḍha), and that with the former we find 9 and with the latter 11 apertures (soya).¹ It is but due to a tendency of discrimination that in contrast to the general Indian view, that the left side is qualified as good (suha-pariṇama) and the right side is being unpropitious (Tand. 35b).