Jechbi wrote:So are you saying that "gandhabba" is just another word for "viable egg"?
I hope not.
In
AN 4.36, gandabbhas are said to be "in the sky". Neither sperm nor ovum are floating around in the air. In
DN 20, of the Four Heavenly Kings, Dhatarattha, King of the East, is identified as "Chief of the Gandhabbas". This means king of the sperm\ovum? In
DN 32, an army of various beings, including Gandabbas, surounded and protected the Buddha, and also saluted him. How was the Buddha surrounded by sperm\ovum, protected by it, and saluted by it? How did sperm\ovum sit down, speak to him, or announce their name and lineage?