[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Science, technology and education](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science) › [Hindu Medicine](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948) › c8.218 # Hindu Medicine c8.218 Hindu Medicine c8.218 - **Language:** English ### [c8.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.218) The new being, which grows in the womb, acquires its individual characteristics through a threefold heritage: from father and mother, and from the formative and limiting forces which inhere in the subtle body shrouding the incorporeal life-monad, the indestructible self. The tangible appearance, or material body, inherits its firmer parts from the father, the softer ones from the mother: - [Previous: c8.217](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.217) - [Next: c8.219](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.219) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.218](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.science.zimmer-1948.c8.218) · Pramāṇa