Abstract: The womb wisdom, Garbhopaniṣad is a brief but a very important treatise providing us with an opportunity to have a peep into the science of embryology, physiology and spirituality of the ancient India. In modern times, chronologically, in order to distinguish it from the classical or principal Upaniṣads, Garbhopaniṣad is one and the new or as K.V. Gajendragadkar terms them "Neo-Upaniṣad"1.
It is a known fact that traditionally every Upaniṣad, even if it be a new one, relatively speaking, is attached to one of the four Vedas. Regarding Garbhopaniṣad, there are certain doubts in the tradition. Traditionally, the Muktikā-Upaniṣad-Sangraha has......
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