jaibi
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In Hindu epic, Mahabharata, there is a chapter which says that when Arjun's wife was pregnant he explained her as to how to gain entry into a charavyooh(military fort) and how to get out of it, when he was explaining her as to how to get out of it she fall asleep. Around 17 years later, Arjun's son Abhimanyu who happened to be in womb then, remembered everything that Arjun told his mother then, gained entry into the chakravyooh during the Mahabharata battle but couldnt get out of it as he didnt know how to get out it and was killed. This epic was written thousands of years before the modern medical science discovered that a baby in the womb can actually hear the sounds outside.
That is why I always state that we must hold our narratives in very high-esteem and that's why I am interested in narratology. Though I hold modern science in high esteem and prescribe to the empiricist-rational model, I have the utmost respect for the ancient man. Our brains have evolved only 0.02% in 10 millenia and a look into history really shows how substantial our claims of being modern and advanced are!
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