Verse 1

¹Bhagavan said: By its acts, with fate for their guide, a creature enters a woman's belly to come by a body, taking its lodging in a drop of a man's seed. ²In one night it is a mingling; in five nights a bubble; in ten days a small hard fruit; and after that a lump of flesh, or else an egg. ³In a month, the head; in two, the shaping of the limbs, the arms and feet and the rest; in three, the nails and hair and bones and skin, and the coming out of the organ and the openings. ⁴In four, the seven substances of the body; in five, the rising of hunger and thirst; in six, wrapped round in its membrane, it moves about in the right side of the belly.

⁵Its substance growing by the food and drink and the rest that the mother has taken, that creature lies in a foul place, in the pit of dung and urine, where creatures are made.