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90 Ghana means that it is like a granthi (a kind of tumour); it may be elongated like a peśī or globular like an arbuda (a kind of tumour) (see Cakra). See on the terms for stages of the development of the embryo in Pali literature: I.B. Horner (1963): I, 55, n.1; C. Suneson (1991). The Samgītaratnākara of Śārṅgadeva (adhyāya 1, piṇḍotpattiprakaraṇa 23cd) employs the terms ghana piṇḍa, peśī and iṣadghana arbuda; one of its commentaries, the Kalānidhi of Kallinātha, explains arbuda as a structure resembling the bud (mukula) of a śālmalī flower. See for the stages of embryonal development and the terms designating them found in the pariśiṣṭa of Yāska's Nirukta, the Mahābhārata, Mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa (11. 2–3), Vāyupurāṇa, Viṣṇudharmottarapurāṇa (II.114.1–5), Śrīdharī's commentary on the Bhāgavatapurāṇa, Sureśvara's Taittirīyopaniṣadbhāṣyavārttika, and Vaidyarāja's Sukhabodha: C. Suneson (1991). 91 See Bhagwan Dash (1975a): 7–8. 92 Cf. Su.Śā.3.18. Compare also Saṃgītaratnākara 1.2.24cd–26ab. See Bhagwan Dash (1975a): 8–9. 93 Laghu is usually a property of vāta (see Ca.Sū.1.59). 94 Compare Ca.Śā.3.10, where preraṇa is ātmaja. 95 Cf. Ca.Śā.5.5 and 7.16. Compare Ca.Śā.4.12 and Su.Śā.1.19. 96 The cravings of a pregnant woman are usually called dohada. See on dohada: M. Bloomfield (1920); O. Böhtlingk (1901a); J.C. Jain (1947): 149–150; H. Lüders (1898): 2–5; G. Obeyesekere (1963); K.A. Padhye (1924); N.M. Penzer (1924c): I, 221–228.