Cloning and IVF in Mahabharatam

Cloning, Embryo development and Artificial Fertilization

If you had read the Mahabharata a hundred years back, you would have thought all those advanced medical descriptions should be "divine" or "crap". Now in this 21st century, we can perceive them to some extent with skepticism due to the development in science. Therefore more and more we advance in science we could perceive the advanced scientific concepts of Mahabharata better. 

The Mahabharata describes how once when Gandhari was pregnant, in a fit of anger, she struck her womb and consequently had a miscarriage. The lump of flesh that came out of her womb was cut into 100 pieces. The great sage Vyasadeva instructed her to place these pieces in 100 ghee pots. And that is how the Kauravas were born. ("The Mahabharata actually describes how Vedavyas created the Kauravas from a single embryo from Gandhari" states Dr B G Matapurkar, a surgeon with Maulana Azad Medical College in New Delhi. Dr Matapurkar holds a US patent on an organ regeneration technique that he devel-oped ten years ago. He further states, "they not only knew about test tube babies and embryo splitting but also had the technology to grow human fetuses outside the body of a woman - something that is not known to modern science." (The Times Of India. May 5, 2002; The Indian Express, May 4, 2002)).

The conference was organized by the southern chapter of the All India Biotech Association. Mr Matapurkar, said that he was thrilled when he stumbled on a verse in Mahabharata under the chapter Adiparva that actually describes how the Kauravas were created from a single embryo from Gandhari. He said that according to the description in Mahabharata, the Kauravas were created by splitting the single embryo into 100 parts and growing each part in a separate container. In other words, Matapurkar said, "they not only knew about test-tube babies and embryo splitting but also had the technology to grow human foetuses outside the body of woman, something that is not known to modern science"

Apart from the above there is also mention of an embryo, conceived in one womb, being transferred to the womb of another woman from where it is born. The transferred embryo is Balarama and this is how he is a brother to Krishna although he was born to Rohini and not to Devaki.Guys i hope you remember FILHAAL movie of meghana gulzar where surrogate mother concept was shown.

In the case of Kunti conceiving by chanting manthras through yogic trans, there is fertilization (the process involving a sperm fusing with an ovum) but without physical Intercourse.May be the manthra acting like a password invokes the object of Meditation (Indra, Vayu Etc) to transmit its chromosomes to the meditator (using her biological address). A very advanced form of Artificial Fertilization.

Guys still there are many things to come up so have patience .