Kauravas were cloned?

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Kauravas were cloned, says scientist

 

PTI [ SATURDAY, MAY 04, 2002 5:10:27 PM ]

HYDERABAD: The science of cloning and test-tube baby was known to

Indians

of Mahabharata age (3000 BC), according to a scientist who told a

conference on stem cell research here on Saturday that the Kauravas

"were

products of a technology that modern science has not even developed

yet".

The epic Mahabharata describes Gandhari as a mother of 100 sons who

were

called Kauravas, the eldest of them being Dhuryodhana.

"No woman can give birth to 100 children in her lifetime, that too

all

males and of the same age," B G Matapurkar, a surgeon with the

Maulana Azad

Medical College in New Delhi told the conference organised by the

southern

chapter of the All India Biotech Association.

Matapurkar, who holds a US patent on organ regeneration technique

that he

developed 10 years ago, 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 kund or container.

"In other words," Matapurkar said, "they not only knew about

test-tube

babies and embryo spliting but also had the technology to grow human

foetuses outside the body of a woman-someting that is not known to

modern

science," he aded.

 

 

 

 

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