Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.5.2

c11.5.2

That the pregnant woman bears a son is known from the fact that milk is created first in her right breast, that her right eye becomes bigger, that she starts walking with the right leg, her desire in pregnancy tends mostly to food, drink and other things with masculine designations, dreams of blue or white lotus-flowers, mangoes and other things of masculine designations, the foetus stands on the right side, she does not desire her husband and so forth. From the opposite symptoms one should anticipate a female foetus: the woman in this case also likes dance, music, singing, fragrance and wreath of flowers (AHr). If the body of the woman is arched forward in the middle, while at the same time there is a combination of both the above-mentioned types of symptoms, she bears an impotent or a hybrid (*napumsaka, kliba*). If both the sides of the body are raised, the middle part has gone deep, so that the body has a form of a watertrough (droni) deepened in the middle, then she bears a twin (Car 4.2.28 f.; Su 3.3.34; AS 2.2.204; AHr 2.1.69-72). After pregnancy is sure the ceremony pumsavana takes place in order to aim at a son according to the Gṛhya sūtras¹ under the pusya constellation when three or four drops of milk mixed with an extract of Ficus Indica and other herbs are dropped in the right nostril of the woman as a snuff. She is not to let the fluid flow out. If the husband desires a daughter, he puts the fluid in the left nostril of the woman (Car 4.8.20; Su 3.2.32;