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Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam
[Canto 5, Ch. 8]
TRANSLATION
By nature the doe was always afraid of being killed by others, and it was always looking about suspiciously. When it heard the lion's tumultuous roar, it became very agitated. Looking here and there with disturbed eyes, the doe, although it had not fully satisfied itself by drinking water, suddenly leaped across the river.
TEXT 5
तस्या उत्पतन्त्या अन्तर्वत्न्या उरुभयावगलितो योनिनिर्गतो गर्भः स्रोतसि निपपात ॥ ५ ॥
tasyā utpatantyā antarvatnyā uru-bhayāvagalito yoni-nirgato garbhaḥ srotasi nipapāta.
tasyāḥ—of it: utpatantyāḥ—forcefully jumping up: antarvatnyāḥ—   having a full womb: uru-bhaya—due to great fear: avagalitaḥ—having   slipped out: yoni-nirgataḥ—coming out of the womb: garbhaḥ—the   offspring: srotasi—in the flowing water: nipapāta—fell down.
TRANSLATION
The doe was pregnant, and when it jumped out of fear, the baby deer fell from its womb into the flowing waters of the river.
PURPORT
There is every chance of a woman's having a miscarriage if she ex- periences some ecstatic emotion or is frightened. Pregnant women should therefore be spared all these external influences.
TEXT 6
तत्प्रसवोत्सर्पणभयखेदातुरा स्वगणेन वियुज्यमाना कस्याश्चिदर्या कृष्णसारसती निपपाताथ च ममार ॥ ६ ॥
tat-prasavotsarpaṇa-bhaya-khedāturā sva-gaṇena viyujyamānā kasyāñcid daryām kṛṣṇa-sārasatī nipapātātha ca mamāra.