The History of Buddhist Thought c13.32

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² *Caṇḍamahārosana-tantra*, ch. xvi, publ. by L. de la Vallée Poussin, *JRAS.*, 1897, p. 467; this work, in explaining rebirth, gives particular physiological details of the process of conception. It appears to hold that the first ten terms from ignorance to becoming (conception) are pre-natal. L. Vallée Poussin, *Deux notes sur le Pratītyasamutpāda*, 14th Internat. Congress of Orientalists, Algiers, 1905.