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A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.231

A History of Hindu Chemistry from the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Sixteenth Century A.D. v2.c34.231

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v2.c34.231

The following parts ( tissues and organs ) in the fœtus are in a special sense modifications of the four organic substances contributed by the sperm-cell of the male parent; hair, nails, teeth, bones, nerves, veins and arteries, tendons and ligaments, and the sperm-cell; the following, of the substances derived from the mother,—skin, blood, flesh, fat, the heart, liver and spleen, kidneys, stomach, intestines, etc. ( Charaka, S'árírasthána, Chap. III. यानि खलुस्य गर्भस्य पितृजानि पितृतः सम्भवतः सम्भवन्ति, तद्यथा केश-श्मश्रु-नख-लोम-दन्तास्थिशिरा-स्नायु-धमन्यः शुक्रमिति पितृजानि। यानि खलुस्य गर्भस्य मातृजानि यानि च अस्य मातुः सम्भवतः सम्भवन्ति—तद्यथा त्वक् च लोहितञ्च मांसञ्च मेदश्च हृदयञ्च यकृत् च प्लीहा च वृक्कौ च पुरीषाधानं च आमाशयश्च इति मातृजानि।)

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