Sukshmjeevanu in Vedas: The Forgotten Past of Microbiology in Indian Vedic Knowledge
Authors
Urvashi Kuhad
Department of English, Ram Lal Anand College, University of Delhi, New Delhi, 110021 India
Gunjan Goel
Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana 123031 India
Pawan Maurya
Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana 123031 India
Ramesh Kuhad
Central University of Haryana, Mahendergarh, Haryana 123031 India
Keywords:
Microbiology, Vedas, Krimi, Kanva
Abstract
No one questions the existence of presumptive knowledge of invisible organisms causing disease, decay and destruction mentioned before the discovery of the microbial world by Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek, who was the first to describe the invisible world as per literature available today. However, the knowledge about microbial world by Indian Rishis presented in Sanskrit shlokas or suktas of our traditional manuscripts such as Vedas remained unseen, where the Rishis had predicted the role of microorganisms known as Krimi or Jeevanu years before Leeuwenhoek. This note is an attempt to bring an emphasis to revisit our traditional Vedic knowledge and establish them through research based facts for wider acceptance globally.
Keywords: Microbiology, Vedas, Krimi, Kanva
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