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rkpande
06 September 2011, 05:47 AM
here (http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2090146,00.html) is an article in Times magazine. researcher have now predicted that there are around 8.8 millions of species on this earth.
Our rishies estimated for sure that there are 8.4 millions
West have to take so many centuries and are still out by 0.4 million, so far they have found only 1.9 million.

sanjaya
06 September 2011, 09:53 AM
Just wondering, is there a written record in Scriptures of the rishis' estimate? I'd very much like to know how they worded this.

sm78
07 September 2011, 04:05 AM
Just wondering, is there a written record in Scriptures of the rishis' estimate? I'd very much like to know how they worded this.

Must be in many puranas. 84 lakhs (8.4 million) yonis before one takes the human form.