Sukshmjeevanu in Vedas: The Forgotten Past of Microbiology in Indian Vedic Knowledge
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2020-10
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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.