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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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