Science and Myths of Ancient India

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Artificial Womb, Assisted Reproductive Technology and In vitro fertilization. Though they sound very futuristic however ancient Indian texts mention similar ideas. The epic Mahābhārata contains story of 100 kaurav brothers’ fetus being placed in earthen pots to grow as their mother’s body was physically unable to give birth with the grace of Sage Vyasa. Sage Agatsya and Sage Vashistha ,sons of god Mitra and Varun with Nymph Urvashi, were born as the vital fluids of their parents were placed in earthen pots.
Genetic Engineering & Designer Baby.
Sage Agatsya though a celibate was required to sire a son in order to relieve his ancestors off a curse. He tried to find a perfect woman to reproduce with, however failed to find a match. Upon ascertaining that no woman was perfect to be his wife, decided to create a perfect girl taking the most graceful parts of animals such as eyes of the deer etc. He created this girl and raised her to become his wife and she came to be known as “Lopamudra”.
Plastic Surgery, organ and tissue reconstruction. Shushrut the author of the treatise “The Compendium of Suśruta” (600 BCE) , is known as Father of Surgery and First Plastic Surgeon. He wrote many books on medicinal and surgical procedures.
Floating bridge, the epic of Rāmāyaṇam describes how army of Lord Ram constructed a floating bridge in order to invade the island of Shri Lanka and rescued mother Sita and killed the demon king Ravan.
Live Telecast. In the epic of Mahābhārata Sanjay narrates to Blind king Dhritrashtra the action in the climactic battle of Kurukshetra as they happen in battlefield since he was gifted with has the gift of seeing events at a distance almost 80 KM of the length (divya-drishti) right in front of him, granted by the sage Vyasa.
Artificial Rains
According to legends, the ancient raga Malhar is so powerful that when sung, it can induce rainfall.
The last documented case of successful “Raga Megh Malhar” singing is of legendary singer Tansen (c. 1500 – 1586) of Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. He was Singer in Royal Court of Mughal King Akabar the Great (1542 –1605). He was also attributed to lit oil lamps by singing “Raga Deepak”. The Tansen Samman or Tansen award is given by the government of India to the exponents in Hindustani Classical music.
Aircrafts and Flying Machines.
Ancient Indian texts are full of mysterious aircrafts known as “Viman” such as “Pushpak Viman”
The ancient Sanskrit text “Vaimānika Śāstra” literally mean “Handbook of Aircrafts” "shastra on the topic of Vimanas"; or "science of aeronautics", sometimes also rendered Vimanika, Vymanika, Vyamanika) is an early 20th-century Sanskrit text on aerospace technology , gives different type of aircrafts and their detailed designs. The topics covered include, "definition of an airplane, a pilot, aerial routes, food, clothing, metals, metal production, mirrors and their uses in wars, varieties of machinery and yantras, planes like ‘mantrik’, ‘tantrik’, and ‘kritak’" and four planes called Shakuna, Sundara, Rukma, and Tripura are described in greater detail. The extant text is claimed to be only a small (one-fortieth) part of a larger work Yantra Sarvaswa ("All about machines"[6]) composed by Maharishi Bharadwaj and other sages for the "benefit of all mankind.

Nuclear War.The ruins of Indus Valley cities Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro show signs of catastrophic event such as Nuclear explosion.
Galactic warfare. Ancient texts describe Lord Shiva waiting for 3 Asur (Demon) civilization planets to come to a perfect alignment and destroying them all in one go with his weapon “Pinak”.

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