Gene Maping in ancient times
Why the Ancient Vedic Rishis created the Gotra system, why did they bar marriage between a boy and a girl belonging to the same Gotra and why only son carries the gotra of father why not daughter ? The Gotra is a system which associates a person with his most ancient or root ancestor in an unbroken male lineage. So Gotra refers to the root person ( मूल पुरुष ) in a person's male lineage. The word Gotra is formed from the two Sanskrit words Gau (Cow) and Trahi (meaning Shed). So Gotra means Cowshed, where in the context is that Gotra is like the Cowshed protecting a particular male lineage. A Bride and a Bridegroom belonging to the same Gotra are considered to be siblings. The reason given was since they belonged to the same ancestor,. it will be like a brother marrying a sister which is known to cause genetic disorders in their offspring Humans have 23 pairs of Chromosomes and in each pair one Chromosome comes from the father and the other comes from the mother. So in all ...