{"collection":"Samyutta Nikaya","full_text_available":true,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/suttacentral_sn10.1/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/suttacentral_sn10.1","id":"suttacentral_sn10.1","license":"CC0","rights_basis":"suttacentral_bilara_data_cc0","source":"suttacentral","source_url":"https://suttacentral.net/sn10.1/en/sujato","summary":null,"tags":["Early Buddhist Texts","Samyutta Nikaya"],"text":"So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near R\u0101jagaha on Mount Indra\u2019s Peak, the haunt of the native spirit Indaka. Then the native spirit Indaka went up to the Buddha, and addressed him in verse: \u201cThe Buddhas say that form is not the soul. Then how does this one obtain this body? From where do his bones and organs come? How does this one coalesce in the womb?\u201d \u201cFirst there\u2019s the zygote; then there\u2019s the blastocyst; from there arises the gastrula; which produces the embryonic mass. From that the limb buds appear, the head hair, body hair, and nails. And whatever the mother eats\u2014 the food and drink that she consumes\u2014 nourishes them there, the person in the mother\u2019s womb.\u201d","title":"With Indaka","tradition":"Samyutta Nikaya","translated_text":null,"word_count":124}