women's breasts

[Dominik Wujastyk]

Das's book, "The origin of the life of a human being : conception and the 
female according to ancient Indian medical and sexological literature", 
will very likely cover this topic in detail.

see http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53434801



-- 
Dr Dominik Wujastyk
Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
University College London



On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Dipak Bhattacharya wrote:

> 06 11 08
> Better 2) ruu.dhilak.sa.naa
> I regret the slip
> DB
>
> --- On Thu, 6/11/08, Tracy Coleman <tcoleman at COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU> wrote:
>
> From: Tracy Coleman <tcoleman at COLORADOCOLLEGE.EDU>
> Subject: women's breasts
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Date: Thursday, 6 November, 2008, 12:14 AM
>
> Indologists--
>
> I am trying to make sense of two sorts of passages I have encountered in
> epic and puranic literature:
>
> 1) A woman well beyond her child-bearing years sees her sons after a long
> separation, and her breasts spontaneously flow with milk, which the sons
> happily drink.
>
> 2) Adolescent girls who are not pregnant have breasts (uras) described as
> "payodhara."
>
> Is there an understanding, in traditional medical literature or other
> works describing the female body, that women's breasts are always filled
> with milk, irrespective of pregnancy?
>
> Thank you,
> Tracy Coleman
> Colorado College
>
>
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