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The Science Behind Holi!!

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Holi is a must-to-be celebrated festival!! Holi is an Indian festival of colors. It is celebrated to symbolize the death of a demoness named Holika. This festival is celebrated in March which signifies a seasonal shift from winter to summer. This season signifies the highest risk of disease spread. This festival is celebrated by applying colors to others and by setting up a bonfire and circumambulating it with dance and songs. And now it's time to see the hidden science in celebrating Holi. The drift from winter to summer during march month creates a greater drift in our health. This leads to greater temperature change in our body which causes various diseases and also facilitates disease spread. And this is the time when Chickenpox, typhoid, and food poisoning spreads commonly. Holi is celebrated to avoid this kind of disease spreading. We celebrate Holi by applying colors to others and by circumambulating bonfires. The temperature of an atmosphere near a bonfire will be about 40

KUMBHAKARNA'S DISEASE

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KUMBHAKARNA: Kumbhakarna is an important character in Ramayana. He is the younger brother of Ravan , the demon king. That is he belonged to the asura clan. He was a giant with greater height and weight which made him the strongest warrior of the epic. Kumbhakarna was a great devotee of God Brahma. BOON TURNED OUT TO BE BANE: Kumbhakarna was the greatest devotee of God Brahma. He was on a severe penance worshipping Lord Brahma. As a result lord, Brahma granted him a boon to ask anything he wanted. So Kumbhakarna made this an opportunity to defeat devas and asked for the position of Indra the leader of devas as a boon,  which panicked the Devas. They wanted to stop this and requested Maa Saraswathi to help them. And Maa Saraswathi to help the Deva's tied the tongue of Kumbhakarna when he was about to ask the boon. As a result of which he mispronounced the words. He intended to ask for Indrasana which was mispronounced to be Nidrasana. And he wanted to ask for Nirdevatam which w

TEST TUBE BABY IN MAHABHARAT

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  So in recent years, we are very much familiar with the word test-tube baby . But how is that even possible to have been occurred in Mahabharata? With much more curiosity let us read further...  GANDHARI :  Gandhari is a noticeable character in the epic Mahabharata and was the princess of Gandhardesh. She is the greatest devote of God Shiva performed severe penance to please him as a result of which God Shiva blessed her with a boon to bear 100 babies . She was very much pleased with the boon.  GANDHARI'S  PREGNANCY : Gandhari was married to Dhritrashtra , the blind king of Hastinapura. Later she got pregnant but the weird thing that happened was her gestation period lasted for 2 years which is completely abnormal. And this made her so frustrated that she took a huge stone and hit her stomach vigorously as a result of which a flesh ball came out of her womb.  So what was that flesh ball?  How will that develop into a baby? 100 babies in single pregnancy are that even possible? S

SCIENCE BEHIND BIRTH OF KARNA

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Karna was a warrior in Mahabharata. He was the ruler of Anga. He was a warrior with extraordinary abilities. He was the greatest king of those times. But the birth of Karna was always a mystery. That he was born as a result of a boon to Kunthi .  BIRTH OF KARNA: Kunthi was the daughter of King Kunthibhoja. She on her father's counsel rendered a great service to Rishi Durvasa . Kunthi gratified Rishi Durvasa . So Rishi Durvasa pleased by her service blessed her with a boon that she would get a baby as a blessing from any God she wished. So Kunti out of innocence and curiosity wishes to test the effectiveness of the boon during her maiden-hood. So she tests the boon by wishing a child from The Sun god . As a result of which Sun God appears before Kunthi. Kunthi couldn't bear the brightness of the Sun-god which was extremely blazing . And the Sun-god blessed her with a baby as she wished. But Kunthi from fear of relatives brought forth in secrecy that child and later Kunthi cast