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There is no mention here of Devananda, the Brahmin mother of Mahavira.
With a sociological twist one may interpret the whole episode differently. Those were the days of feudal Kingship. The King supreme owned many a qucens and in the palace there were concubines from every strata including Brahmins with whom the King frequently had sexual relations. The son born to a Brahmin concu. bine could found favour with the King linking the son's parentage to the King and the queen for the outside world.
The purpose of this article however is only to bring to light a mystical operation of a highly developed Embryo and it's transfer from one female womb to another female womb performed nearly 2600 years ago. The medical world will certainly appreciate the several features of this operation. The description and details as mentioned in the ancient scriptures can not be brushed aside as wholly imaginery. After all Imagination is also relative in certain ways to some well known physical phenomenon. May be some of the details are missing or the author might not bave been able to explain them throughly. The most crucial aspect being the taking out of the embryo or its micro form from the woub without the aid of any mechanical instruments and replacing the same with another without causing any paid to the patient, the mother or any damage to the embical chord. And that too when the embryo is 83 days old. A feet par excellence. How the Embryo could be reduced to micro form and how it could be taken to a distant place in bare folded palms24 are some of the aspects not fully explained. The Modern Medical science may some day develop such devices which may suceed in deciphering this ancient parable.
'Mr. Bhutoria has successfully drawn the attantion of the gynaecologists & the people dealing in Embryogeny or Embryography. He has narrated stap by stap description of the Operation and the preaching of Lord Mabavir in form of questions and answers of the transferred Embryo.
We have also written a note on the subject published in Montbly magazine-Jain Bharati (39.3) for the month of March, 1991 : Care OCHT 15T anfita Agra (Pages 147-148) and quoted some more references from Mahabharat and other famous works of Indian origin'.
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