(4) For the protection of the good, for the destruction of the wicked, and for establishing Dharma, I take birth in every age.

(14) Whatever form is produced, Ο son of Kunti, in any womb, the Great Nature is its womb, and I am the seed-giving Father.

(18) Wish that those things which labor ought to precede, may be possessed by you after labor.

Be not anxious to please the multitude.

(6) Now, in 'case one wishes, 'That a learned (pandita] daughter be born to me! that she may attain the full fength of life I '— they two should have rice boiled with sesame and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [her]. 1 8. Now, in case one wishes, 'That a son, learned, famed, a frequenter of council-assemblies, a speaker of discourse desired to be heard, be born to me! that he be able to repeat all the Vedas! that he attain the full length of life! '—they two should have rice boiled with meat and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [him], with meat, either veal or beef.

(4) Those who understand the divine nature of my birth and activities, O Arjun, upon leaving the body, do not have to take birth again, but come to my eternal abode.

(13) Whatever is born— whether animate or inanimate— know, Ο Bhārata prince, that it is through union of the Field and the Knower of the Field.

(7) Know this (Prakriti) to be the womb of all beings; I am the source of the outcoming of the whole universe, and like-wise the source of its dissolution.

(6) In case one wishes, 'That a white son be born to me! that he may be able to repeat a Veda! that he may attain the full length of life! ' — they two should have rice cooked with milk and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [him],

(14) The Great Nature is My womb; in that I place the seed of life, and thence are born all beings, Ο Bhārata.

(6) Now, in case one wishes, 'That a tawny son with reddish-brown eyes be born to me! that he may be able to recite two Vedas f that he may attain the full length of life! ' — they two should have rice cooked with sour milk and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [him], 1 6. Now, in case one wishes, ' That a swarthy son with red eyes be born to me! that he may be able to repeat three Vedas! that he may attain the full length of life! ' — they two should have rice boiled with water and should eat it prepared with ghee. They two are likely to beget [him]. possessions of which an offender is to be deprived by an offended Brahman, •phrase also in Sat. Br I. 6 I. 18.

(88) Behold, dost thou know how a Child comes to be Flesh and Blood, and in the End a living Soul? And do you not know that the Tincture of the Mother is first, when a Child shall be conceived? which is done in the Desire of the Will between Man and Woman; where then the Seed [for the Child] is sown, and then the Tincture in the Matrix assumes it, with the Mixture of the Limbus of the Man. And though the outward Mother does not desire [to have] the Child, but desires many Times only to have her Pleasure; yet the inward [Mother] desires it, and also first of all impregnates itself in the Tincture, and then attracts the oFiat to it, and holds the Limbus of the Man, and becomes impregnated.

(363) You conceive the body of a god-loving man, but you will not be able to rule over his speech.

(9) For those who take refuge in Me, Ο Pārtha, though they be of sinful birth— women, vaiśyas, and śudras— even they attain the Supreme Goal.

(7) 'Those whose conduct has been good, will quickly attain some good birth, the birth of a Brâhmana, or a Kshatriya, or a Vaisya. But those whose conduct has been evil, will quickly attain an evil birth, the birth of a dog, or a hog, or a Kandâla.

(53) For every man that desireth to be saved, must, with his innate, instant births or genitures, be as the whole Deity with all the three births in this world is.

(18) When the mind-impressions become visible, there comes an understanding of previous births.

(24) O soul, persistent one, be sober and shake off your drunkenness, which is the work of ignorance. If you persist and live in the body, you dwell in rusticity. When you entered into a bodily birth, you were begotten. Come into being inside the bridal chamber! Be illuminated in mind!

(460) The proper officers will take the offspring of the good parents to the pen or fold, and there they will deposit them with certain nurses who dwell in a separate quarter; but the offspring of the inferior, or of the better when they chance to be deformed, will be put away in some mysterious, unknown place, as they should be. Yes, he said, that must be done if the breed of the guardians is to be kept pure. They will provide for their nurture, and will bring the mothers to the fold when they are full of milk, taking the greatest possible care that no mother recognises her own child; and other wet-nurses may be engaged if more are required. Care will also be taken that the process of suckling shall not be protracted too long; and the mothers will have no getting up at night or other trouble, but will hand over all this sort of thing to the nurses and attendants. You suppose the wives of our guardians to have a fine easy time of it when they are having children. Why, said I, and so they ought. Let us, however, proceed with our scheme. We were saying that the parents should be in the prime of life? Very true. And what is the prime of life? May it not be defined as a period of about twenty years in a woman’s life, and thirty in a man’s? Which years do you mean to include? A woman, I said, at twenty years of age may begin to bear children to the State, and continue to bear them until forty; a man may begin at five-and-twenty, when he has passed the point at which the pulse of life beats quickest, and continue to beget children until he be fifty-five.

(6) When she is about to bring forth, he sprinkles her with water, saying: — 'Like as the wind doth agitate A lotus-pond on every side, So also let thy fetus stir. Let it come with its chorion. This fold of Indra's has been made With barricade, enclosed around. O Jndra, cause him to come forth—-

(7) 'He who has no understanding, who is unmindful and always impure, never reaches that place, but enters into the round of births.'