A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c46.1232

v3.c46.1232

The contents deviate in many respects from what is found on the same subject in āyurvedic treatises. 622 Sexual intercourse is not allowed on the first four days of the menstrual cycle. 623 The developmental stages of the embryo are called kalika (first to fourth day), 624 budbuda (fifth to ninth day), the stage of the development of māṃsa (tenth to nineteenth day), 625 and the stage of the development of ghanamāṃsa (twentieth to twenty-fourth day); from the twenty-fifth day onwards bala and puṣṭi are said to increase (22–23). At the end of the first month of pregnancy the five tattvas are present; the second month is characterized by the development of skin (tvacā) and fatty tissue (medas); bone marrow and bones come into being in the third month, the hair of the head, as well as the ankles (gulpha), in the fourth, ears, nose and the lateral parts of the abdomen (kukṣi) in the fifth, the throat, opening of the skull (randhra) and back (pṛṣṭha) in the sixth, and the sexual organs (guhya) in the seventh month; all the major and minor parts of the body are present from the eighth month onwards (24–26). 626