Thread by @sanjoychakra

#Abhimanyu #Chakravyuha and stages of Intra Uterine development of foetus
1. It is my humble effort to correlate incidents of Mahabharata with scientific research.
Subhadra was the younger sister of #LordKrishna and wife of #Arjuna. #ThePandavas were exiled for thirteen..cont..2

2. years and Subhadra stayed at her parental home at Dwaraka. When Abhimanyu was in his mother’s womb,he heard his maternal uncle Lord Krishna describe the secret of a military formation Chakravyuha and how to penetrate it. While listening to this,Subhadra fell asleep...cont..3

3. Hence Abhimanyu had learnt the art of entering a Chakravyuha fighting but not having heard the full description,he was unaware of how to come out of it alive. He was killed in Kurukshetra War. Let us find a scientific correlation to this story. Motherhood is a blessing of...4.

4. God. A full-term pregnancy is 40 weeks, or 280 days.Most of embryo’s organs and systems develop by 8 weeks of pregnancy. Data collected from “The Emergence of Human Consciousness: From Fetal to Neonatal Life “ Hugo Lagercrantz &
Jean-Pierre Changeux , Pediatric Research ...5..

5. volume 65, pages 255–260 (2009). “By 16th week of Intra Uterine life(IU) a foetus has lips and ears and can hear speech. Responses to low frequency noise can be recorded from approximately the 16th wk in the fetus brain . Withdrawal reflex to painful stimuli can be ...cont..6

6. recorded in 19th week IU. The auditory cortex responds to hearing around the 26th wk. In a study, cortical activation to sound was detected in the fetus from the 33rd wk of gestation . Memory- If a 22-23 wk human fetus is exposed to a repetitive stimulus, such as the ...7..

7. vibration of an electric tooth brush, it reacts by movements; after multiple stimuli it does not react any longer, it habituates. The fetus in utero is almost continuously asleep and unconscious partially due to endogenous sedation. Exposure of the mother's speech in ..cont..8

8. utero during the last week of fetal life, under sleeping “unconscious” conditions, may explain why neonates react to the maternal voice.” H. Lagercrantz & J.P.Changeux have concluded that,“Newborn infants remember sounds, melodies, and rhythmic poems they have been ..cont..9.

9. exposed to during fetal life.” So if an woke ridicules #Mahabharata, show him/her evidence based on scientific research.