A History of Indian Medical Literature v1.c11.42

v1.c11.42

Disorders of the foetus on account of damage to the female procreatory fluid (śoṇita) and the uterus are discussed: affections of parts of the body derived from the mother, sterility (vandhyātva), premature death,104 and the condition of being a vārttā.105 The same disorders arise from damage to particular parts of the male seed, with this difference that not a vārttā, but a tṛṇaputrika may be born106 (4.30–31).