Tag Embryology

Vedic Embryology Garbhopanishad

1.Dadisi's Stemcell was taken from his backbone, when Dadisi gave his backbone to Indra, Chief of Devatas to enable him to create a Powerful weapon, Vajrayadudha.

2.Sage Agasthya was born in Pot, with Semen being kept in it.

3.Lord Krishna taught Abhimanyu the Chakravyuha., a Battle formation.

There are more instances, I shall be posting on this in detail.

I have published an article on Human Conception Embryology in The Vedas where I have dealt with references to Bhagavatham and Charaka Samhita.

We have a Upanishad fully devoted to Embryology

Human Conception Embryology In The Vedas

The Third Canto of Shrimad Bhagavatam, where Lord Kapila (An incarnation of Krishna who appeared in Satya-yuga as the son of Devahuti and Kardama Muni) instructs His mother at least two million years ago.

Sage Kapila is the founder of Samkhya Pkilosophy.

Interstingly Samkhya does not believe in God.

He cursed and burnt to ashes the children of Sakara,after whom the Oceans get the name, Sagara, for disturbing His Meditation.

The descendant ,Bhagiratha brought the Ganges from Heavens , midst great difficulties to alleviate their suffering and have them granted Moksha....
kalalaḿ tv eka-rātreṇa pañca-rātreṇa budbudam
daśāhena tu karkandhūḥ peśy aṇḍaḿ vā tataḥ param

bhagavad purana 3-31-2

On the first night, the sperm and ovum mix, and on the fifth night the mixture ferments into a bubble. On the tenth night it develops into a form like a plum, and after that, it gradually turns into a lump of flesh or an egg, as the case may be.

māsena tu śiro dvābhyāḿ bāhv-ańghry-ādy-ańga-vigrahaḥ
nakha-lomāsthi-carmāṇi lińga-cchidrodbhavas tribhiḥ

bhagavad purana 3-31-3

In the course of a month, a head is formed, and at the end of two months the hands, feet and other limbs take shape. By the end of three months, the nails, fingers, toes, body hair, bones and skin appear, as do the organ of generation and the other apertures in the body, namely the eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth and anus.

caturbhir dhātavaḥ sapta pañcabhiḥ kṣut-tṛḍ-udbhavaḥ
ṣaḍbhir jarāyuṇā vītaḥ kukṣau bhrāmyati dakṣiṇe