The Origin of the Life of a Human Being

The study attempts to determine how the ancient Indian Medical and sexological texts would answer a non-medical question, but also social and religious relevance, namely: What happens in a woman's body at the time of conception? To this end, numerous relevant texts were exhaustively analysed, along with several secondary sources and relevant data from other traditional medicinal systems.

Rahul Peter Das was educated in India upto Pre-Medical Examination of Calcutta University. He went on to obtain his MA (1981) and Ph.D. (1985) from the University of Hamburg.