Indra, with the help of his thunderbolt, cut into seven pieces her embryo, which glowed like gold, and which began to cry. Indra told them, "Do not cry," and then he cut each of them into seven pieces again. He said, “Do not cry” to comfort them. But then he cut them into seven more parts each. Some say that a single jīva can expand his body into forty-nine forms for a short time like a yogī or like someone else enjoying a lot of both piety and sin. Others say that knowing the future event, forty-nine jīvas entered into one body, and then entered each of the forty-nine parts when cut by Indra. Others say that forty-eight more jīvas entered each of the other parts the moment that Indra cut up the one fetus, just as separate jīvas enter each branch when a person cuts branches off a creeper or bush and plants them in the ground.