Dear Devotees,
Regarding Garbha Upanishad mentioned by Shriman
Sagopan:
Members may like to read the article "Medical Heritage of
India" by N.H. Keshwani on the internet at http://www.healthlibrary.com/reading/banyan1/1appen1.htm
The following is an extract from this article:
"The science of embryology was matter of considerable
speculation and controversy in the various schools of philosophy and medicine.
One entire Upanished has been devoted to the speculations with regard to
the formation and development of the human embryo (Keswani 1962, 1965). This
Garbha Upanishad, literally a brief treatise on embryo, is considered to
be of greater antiquity than the rest of the Upanishads of the class to which
Garbhopanishad belongs. There are ample references to the development of
the human embryo in the Vedas themselves. It is suprising to read inthem
and the various medical texts, the ideas of the ancient Hindus regarding the
biological evolution, reproduction, generation, preformation and spontaneous
regeneration, which at a first glance appear to be borrowed from a modern text
on embryology!"
Dasan,
Krishnaswamy
M.K. |
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