Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.30

c11.30

Similar symptoms appear if the foetus does not grow on account of the disease of the placenta and deficient feeding caused thereby. In this case it is called *upaviṣṭaka* when it neither grows nor reduces, *upaśuṣkaka* or *nāgodara* when it is reduced and the lower part of the abdomen of the mother becomes smaller, and *līna* when it does not throb and does not move (AS 2.4.184 f.; AHr 2.2.14-18; Car 4.8.26-27). Here (i.e. in the case of the *līna* foetus) the case apparently seems to be that of abdominal pregnancy. When people say that the child has been carried away by *Naigameṣa*, the case seems to have been that of a false pregnancy (Su 3.10.57; AS 2.4.216; Bhāv 2.4.184).