First ever test tube baby in History, Mahabharata???

The Mahabharata is full of interesting stories. Dhritarashtra being elder son always wanted to be the king of Hastinapur (Uttarpradesh now) but Pandu being younger son was coroneted as king due to Dhritarashtra’s blindness. Dhritarashtra was unhappy with it and desired his son to be the next king. He married early than Pandu with Gandhari, a princess from Gandhar and she got pregnant early too. They were happy as their son supposed to be the king which Dhritarashtra could not.

Time past by, Gandhari was pregnant for two years but did not deliver anything. On the other hand, Pandu had his first son Yudhirstir from his wife Kunti. Since Yudhistir was born first so he supposed to be next king as per the system followed those days. Dhritarashtra was unhappy as Gnadhari supposed to deliver first and their unborn son missed the opportunity to become a king like the way Dhritarashtra did. 

Gandhari was so angry with her womb that she started punching her belly. She forcefully delivered a piece of dark life-less flesh. Once Rishi Vyasa was pleased with the hospitality of Gandhari and given her the boon of hundred sons. 

But she delivered just a flesh. Vyasa heard this and arrived to the palace and consoled her.

Vyasa took that flesh and cut into hundred pieces, also he took hundred vessels. He put each flesh in each vessel and poured some kind of oil or ghee and some other substances. Then he uttered some divine Mantras and kept those closed. After keeping hundred pieces of fleshes, he found one piece of flesh was left. He took that flesh too and did the same.

After a period of time something unusual happened. Gandhari found from the first vessel one baby was crying, thus she got her first son Duryadhana. He was the eldest and strongest among all. Similarly one by one she had hundred sons. The last vessel which was left, a baby girl was born from it, named Dushala. Thus Gandhari became the mother of hundred sons and one daughter.

This is considered as the first ever test tube baby in ancient history of India. 

The Curse behind Krishna's death and destruction of Yadavas

After the Great War in Kurukshetra Pandavas won and Yudhisthir was coroneted as king in the presence of Lord Krishna. Krishna before leaving Hasthinapur met Gandhari to take permission of leaving. Gandhari was in great sadness as she lost hundred sons including Duryodhaan (the eldest and closet one) in that battle. She got angry seeing Krishna and stated why He didn’t stop the war as He is the God and only He had the power to stop it. She also mentioned that Krishna wanted this ending intentionally. He made Pandavas win and Kauravas defeat. She cried at her loss and cursed Krishna that He’ll die a normal death (not glorious) and His clan will be destroyed by killing each other the way Kauravas destroyed.

 Gandhari was the great devotee of Lord Shiva and was loyal to her husband. Krishna smiled and replied, “Mother, it doesn’t matter how I leave the world” and “No one can kill Yadava except they kill each othert.” And Krishna left.

Yadavas became very powerful under the protection of Lord Krishna and also they had the boon of being defeated by anyone. So the Yadavas became very luxurious, forgot morals and good conduct. They started celebrating and drinking. 

Once a group of sages visited their palace, Yadava boys decided to prank them. Samba dressed as a pregnant woman and went in front of those sages to ask whether he would deliver a boy or a girl. The sages became furious to see this insult and cursed him that he would deliver an iron mace and that would be the reason for their destruction.

Soon after Samba delivered an iron mace. They were so afraid that they smashed that iron mace except a small piece that they couldn’t smash and threw it near sea side. Later on, those smashes grew into plants near sea but they were not aware of it. Once a hunter, named Jara found that small piece of iron thrown by them, thought of making arrow head, so he took that piece.

Yadava used to make big false stories of past war of Kurukshetra while parting together. Once they started fighting each other on the argument, who performed well in that war. The fight became so furious that one Yadava took a sword and killed another Yadava.

 Thus their destruction started. Krishna and Balaram already hid all the weapons but they found those same plants grew in the sea side and they used those to kill each other.

Balaram left seeing this, started meditating under a tree and left his body in the form of big serpent. Krishna seeing this left too and went to a jungle. The hunter Jara misunderstood Lord’s feet as dear and he shot. It was the same arrow he made from that piece of iron. The hunter came close and found it was Lord Krishna, he asked forgiveness.

Krishna smiled and said He was waiting for him only. Lord narrated to Jara as he was confused, he was Baali in his previous life and Lord Ram killed Baali from behind in Treta Yug. So in this life Lord Krishna did penance being killed by Baali (the Hunter).

Thus, Lord Krishna left this Bhulok (earth) and returned to His Vaikuntha. Lord also kept Gandhari’s curse fulfilled.