Indian Medicine (Medicin), translated by C. G. Kashikar c11.8.2

c11.8.2

In the third month the body develops in five directions (AS) : [1] bones, [2] arms, [3] head, [4] seats for all the organs excluding things like teeth and symptoms of puberty which develop only after the birth, and [5] all senses. From wind are created the feeling, the sense of feeling, hoarseness, action, the expansion of the elements (of the body) and the movements: from fire the colour, sight, light, digestion and warmth: from water the taste, the sense of taste, coolness, softness, smoothness and moistness; from earth the smell, the sense of smell, weight, solidity and form. The phenomena that appear in the world also appear in men (Car 4.4.8-10; cf. Yājñ 3.75-78). With the creation of senses coincides also the development of the power of discrimination, the occurance of child's movements and the desires of the pregnant woman. See above § 40. According to Su 3.3.18, this takes place in the fourth month. In the fourth month all parts of the body and the heart take a definite shape and the foetus becomes fixed. In the fifth month flesh and blood increase to a greater extent than in other months according to Caraka, which accounts for the general weakness of the woman in this month. The soul also becomes more animated in this month. In the sixth month hair on the head and body, nails, bones, sinews, arteries etc. are formed, the vigour and complexion of the foetus also increase.