
According to Jain mythology, once a Brahmin woman with a weak womb became pregnant, Indra transferred the child from the Brahmin woman’s womb to a Kshatriya woman’s womb, and thus Tirthankara was born. This story is a religious way of showing the birth circumstances of Tirthankara, a personality associated with high spirituality, and not an example of ancient Prajna science.

According to the Bengali Ramayana Kritibhashi, two widowed queens of Dilip fell in love with each other and gave birth to the great king Bhagiratha. The story of two widows giving birth to a child may be completely mythological and even symbolic. To believe it or not depends on the faith of the people.

Once, seeing Apsara Kirtachi, Rishi Bharadwaj unknowingly ejaculated. He immediately preserved that semen in a vessel named Drona and thus Dronacharya was born. This phenomenon is seen in Indian texts in alternative methods of human reproduction process.

During the Mahabharata period, when Gandhari gave birth to a lump of flesh, Vyas cut the flesh into 101 pieces and kept it in a jar containing medicine in a special room. Kauravas were born from those jars. This process has been presented in a supernatural form in Indian epics. But scientifically this kind of technology is completely full of myth.

Princesses Kadru and Vinat gave birth to eggs. Thousands of serpents were born from Kadru’s egg, and Garuda and Aruna were born from Vinata’s egg. This story is entirely based on the Puranic tradition of the origin of the divine species.

King Yuvneshva accidentally drinks the fertility medicine meant for his wife, due to which the king becomes pregnant and the child comes out of the king’s thigh. People may hardly believe these things, but when the rest of the world was hunting animals in the forests, great Indian minds imagined these possibilities, who are no less than genius.
Published at : 28 Nov 2025 04:27 PM (IST)

