Hindu Medicine c8.219

c8.219

The firm parts of the body, hair, beard, body-hair, bones, nails, teeth, vessels (sirā), tendons and muscles, tubular canals (dhamanī, comprising veins and nerves), and the seed derive from the father; the soft parts, flesh, blood, fat, marrow, the heart, the navel, the liver, the spleen, the anus and so forth, derive from the mother.