Charaka-Samhita — trans. Kaviraj Avinash Chandra Kaviratna

Through the inability of becoming Cause, he becomes NotSelf. He really becomes somethirfg existing in speech only. Hence what has been asserted as the cause of conception or the foetus becomes truly meaningless.

Even this was said by Bharadwaja.®*

* It will be remembered that Punarvasu’s assertion is that Concep¬ tion or the fcetus is the result of the sum total of all the causes mentioned, viz.. Self, father’s semen, mother’s blood, proper food and drink assimi¬ lated by the parents, and food-juices. Bharadwaja’s objection to this is — What is that which combines these causes ? Behind them all, there must be a potent cause capable of combining or uniting them together, if it is their union that produces Conception or the loetus. Having asked this

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