Cloning In Ancient India

In the Mahabharata, there is an interesting, but an unbelievable incident about the birth of one hundred sons and a daughter to the wife of the blind king Dhrithrashtra.

When Queen Gandhari heard of the birth of a son to Queen Kunthi, she caused the fetus from her womb to be removed and stored in a hundred and one containers, which later developed into fully blossomed human beings.

Maharishi Vyasa has given details of such a happening, more than seven thousand years ago.

While many Indians have great faith in the integrity and wisdom of the great sage, who wrote Mahabharata and called it “Ithihaasa” (it so happened), they are greatly embarrassed by the above narration. How can one lady give birth to a hundred sons and a daughter and that too, through one Husband?