आरभ्य सप्तमान्मासाल्लब्धबोधोऽपि वेपित: । नैकत्रास्ते सूतिवातैर्विष्ठाभूरिव सोदर: ॥ १० ॥
arabhya saptaman masal labdha-bodho ’pi vepitah naikatraste suti-vatair vistha-bhur iva sodarah
- arabhya
- beginning
- saptamat masat
- from the seventh month
- labdha-bodhah
- endowed with consciousness
- api
- although
- vepitah
- tossed
- na
- not
- ekatra
- in one place
- aste
- he remains
- suti-vataih
- by the winds for childbirth
- vistha-bhuh
- the worm
- iva
- like
- sa-udarah
- born of the same womb.
Thus endowed with the development of consciousness from the seventh month after his conception, the child is tossed downward by the airs that press the embryo during the weeks preceding delivery. Like the worms born of the same filthy abdominal cavity, he cannot remain in one place.