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TULSI-PRAJNA
"Having descended from heaven Tord Mahavira's 'Being' reincarnated in the womb of Devananda Bbahmipi, wife of Risbav. dutt in Brahmin colony of Kundpur village, on the 83rd day after impregnation the Celestial Angles transferred Mahavira's embryo to the womb of Trishala, the Khsarani8 Queen after removing all infec. tious elements and introducing anti-sceptic elements. Likewise the angels transferred Trisbala's embryo to Devananda's womb".
The noteworthy aspects af the aforesaid description are :(a) The operation of embryo transfer takes place after 82 days of
pregnancy i.e., on 83rd day to be exact. This is a feet not even
accomplished by modern clinical methods as yet. (6) The Brahmin colony of Kundpur must be at some distance from
the Khsatriya colony of the village where the embryo was taken to and from.
(c) Before the embryo was taken out or transferred to one womb,
a kind of clinical Stenlisation is done to ward off sceptic elements,
The theme of Mahavira's embryo-transfer has been discussed by Acharya Sudharma in another ancient jain-scripture 'Bhagawati Sutra'. Acharya Sudharma was the first successor of Mahavira His time is 527-507 BC. He gives an eleborateaccount of Mahavira's life and preachings mainly in from of questions and answers as exchanged between Lord Mahavira and His first benefactor10 Goutam and overheard by him. The descriptions are as authentic as Acharanga-Sutra's. In chapter11 5, subheading12 4 stanzas18 12 to 13 of Bhagawati-Sutra the answers given to Goutam's questions regarding the birth and embryo-transfer of Lord Mahavira by Mahavira himself, supposed to have been perceived from his capability to remember even the previous births 14 are as follows
"गोयमा ! नो गम्भाओ गम्भं साहरइ, नो गब्भाओ जोणि साहरइ, नो जोणिमओ जोणि साहरइ, परामुसिय, परामुसिय अब्बाबाहेणं अब्बावाहं जोणिो गन्भं साहरइ ।"
(TTTTT 8730) "हंता पभू, नो चेव णं तस्स गब्भस्स किचि वि आबाहं वा, विवाहं वा उप्पाएन्जा, छविच्छेदं पुण करेज्जा, ए सुहमं च णं साहरेज्ज वा निहरेज्ज वा।"
(ATHI 83 30) "Ob Goutam ! The Angel Harigoergmeshi does not take out or place in the whole embryo from one womb to another, Neither he takes out the embryo through female's vagina and place it in others
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