A History of Indian Medical Literature v2.c30.126

v2.c30.126

46 Translated as hermaphrodite (Gulabkunverba; R.K. Sharma and Bhagwan Dash; P.V. Sharma). The dviretas is described as possessing both male and female characteristics (strīpumsa-lingin); Cakrapāṇi is uncertain about the meaning of this term and offers two different explanations, which have in common that the secondary sexual characteristics do not develop in a dviretas when the male and female contributions to the bīja are equal, because they only manifest themselves at puberty when there was either an excess of śukra or rakta in the bīja.