The Upanishad gives details of the elements (essential parts and principles) and various features of the body and gives detailed explanation on the evolution of the embryo in the mother's womb. The Garbha Upanishad is a text that almost exclusively comments on medical and physiology-related themes, dealing with the theory of the formation and development of the human embryo and human body after birth. The last verse of the Upanishad attributes the text to sage Pippalada, but the chronology and author of the text is unclear, and the surviving manuscripts are damaged, inconsistent with each other and incomplete. It is considered one of the 35 Samanya (general) Upanishads. ![]() Written in Sanskrit, it is associated with the Krishna Yajurveda by some, and as a Vedantic Upanishad associated with the Atharvaveda by other scholars. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Garbha Upanishad ( Sanskrit: गर्भ उपनिषत्) or Garbhopanishad meaning "Esoteric Doctrine over the Embryo" is one of the minor Upanishads, listed number 17 in the modern anthology of 108 Hindu Upanishadic texts.
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