Thus said Lord Atreya. [Note: Jati means birth and Sutra is which is described in short. Jatisutriya is description of different methods and procedures of birth in short. It deals with continuation of one’s own lineage in this discourse on Sharira.]
Now we shall explain the procedures required for begetting a progeny of excellent qualities, to be practiced by man and woman of unaltered (pure, undamaged) sperm, ovum and uterus.
Such a couple (desiring good progeny) should first undergo purification therapies described earlier in this treatise - unction and sudation procedures followed by emesis and purgation - and gradually get back to normalcy. Once purified, the couple should undergo non-unctuous and unctuous enema. Then, the man should be administered with sweet-tasting drugs processed with ghee and milk while the woman should take sesame oil and black gram.
[Abstinence from coitus during menstruation] While menstruating, the woman should abstain from coitus for three nights, sleep on the ground, consume food with her hand from unbroken utensils, and should not clean her body by any means. On the fourth day, she should be anointed well with oil and should be given a good head bath, cleansed well, and then made to wear white coloured apparel. The man should follow similar rituals as the woman on her fourth day of menstruation. Then onwards, the two, wearing white apparels and garlands, with pleasant disposition, loving each other, should enter into acts of coitus - on even days if desirous of a male child, and on odd days for a female child.