Hindu Medicine c8.231

c8.231

In the first month the germ grows into a drop like a resinous exudation (kalala); in the second month it becomes a solid mass, an association of the five elements, matured by cool and hot winds. If it is a lump (piṇḍa), it will be a boy; if it is a ball (peśī), it will be a girl; if it is a swelling (arbuda), it will be a hermaphrodite. In the third month the five protrusions of arms, legs and head emerge; and the articulation of the major and minor limbs begins to be visible.