A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c11.35

v1.c11.35

In the first month of its development the embryo is a jelly-like (kheṭa) mixture of all its constituents;88 in the second month it becomes a firm mass (ghana), which is like a bolus (piṇḍa),89 like a muscle (peśī), or like a tumour(arbuda),90 thus indicating that its sex is male, female, or neither male nor female (napuṃsaka).91 All the sense organs, the main parts of the body (aṅga) and the smaller parts, develop in the third month.92