The birth of Dronacharya, the Guru of the Pandavas and Kauravas in the Mahabharata, is very interesting. It would not be wrong to say that Dronacharya is the first test tube baby in the world. Rishi Bharadwaja is the father of Dronacharya and mother is an Apasara name Krithaji.
One evening Rishi Bharadwaja was getting ready to do his evening prayers. He went to the
On seeing Rishi Bharadwaja, the beautiful Apsara Krithaji got out of the Ganga River
Rishi Bharadwaja was moved by the heavenly beauty of the Apsara. Suddenly the most unthinkable happened - Apsara Krithaji slipped on the banks of the river and the loin cloth slipped from her body.
Rishi Bharadwaja was overpowered by the moment and he involuntarily emitted his semen. The Rishi collected this sperm in a clay pot and stored it in a dark place in his Ashram. Drona was born in this pot.
'Dronam' means pot and 'Dronar' is one who was born from the pot.
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Actually not. Dronaacharya happens to be one of the test tube babies and later on 14 kauravas were so too. But way before Mahabharata, it was during the time of Ramayana and actually a little earlier to Lord Rama's birth, Rshi Agasthya was conceived as a test tube baby. If not first, this is the earliest record of what we call today - the test tube babies.
Thank you so much for pointing this out. It is through such comments that we get to learn more. Please do keep providing corrections.
Will do more research on the birth of Rishi Agastya and write about it.
This is really interesting, altho hard to understand how the baby was born in a pot. Also, why would Rishi collect his sperm?
Thanx for sharing :)
Hi
They mention about the birth of Sage Agasthya in these sites
http://kumarmohit.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/story-sage-agasthya/
http://www.hinduwebsite.com/hinduism/concepts/agasthya.asp
Regards
I am not sure when, and if, the system of Maithuni shrushti replaced the original system when the birth took place by just Ichha (wish). Story of Sanat Kumar, and of thousands of children are mentioned in our scriptures.
Dron and Agastya are just few examples, may be, of the Ichha Shakti.
-B.P. Shah
Washington DC
Where did the Ovum come from ? only sperms cannot give birth to Drona.
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