How India Reconciles Hindu Values and Biotech : "Early in 'The Mahabharata,' there is a story about how the hundred Kaurava brothers came into being. Their mother had produced a mass of flesh after two years of pregnancy. But then a sage divided the flesh into 100 parts, which were treated with herbs and ghee, and kept in pots for two years - from which the Kaurava brothers emerged.

Indian proponents of stem-cell research often offer this story as an early instance of human cloning through stem cells extracted from human embryos. They do not mention that 'The Mahabharata' presents the birth of the hundred Kaurava brothers as an ominous event. "

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