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The most important intention of this paper is to analyze materials concerning human embryology in Buddhism in order to reflect the gratitude of parents and in Medical Science and critically compare them in order to acquire improved comprehension about the different perspectives. By means of comparing these two different fields of study, it aims to make Buddha Dhamma living, how difficulty to become a human life, to know the importance of parents' gratitude and relevant to modern society in Buddhist perspective. Mainly the paper will emphasize the morphological appearance and size of the embryo with its respective age or period of gestation. The developmental stages with their respective names such as Abbuda, Pesi, Gana and Pas?kh? will be elucidated to determine the growth of the embryo week by week from Buddhist perspective. Furthermore, the paper contains the illustration of the process of normal labour, sufferings of mother as well as baby during the pregnancy and process of delivery. reasons for abortion mentioned in both Buddhism and Medical Science will also be studied. Overall, the essential part of this work assembles systematized compilation of the data concerning the human embryology scatter throughout the P??i Canonical texts, commentaries and sub-commentaries. Specially, for this study the Abhidhammatthasa?gaha will be the key to unlocking this vast storehouse of Buddhist knowledge.