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Saint Maanickavaachagar has very exquisitely traced the evolution of human beings with particular reference to his own human form. right from the earliest life forms of Protozoa and Protofauna of the Biological Science from the Palaeozoic era of 5000 to 600 million years: 'Grass was I, shrub was I, worm, tree, Full many a kind of beast, bird, snake, stone, man, goblins and demons. The form of mighty giants, ascetics, devas, I bore within these immobile and mobile forms of life. In every species born, weary I have grown Great Lord "" (Thiruvaachakam 1-26 t031). In these life forms one can easily see the course of evolution of the Animal Kingdom as propounded by Charles Darwin. The saint has also traced the development of the human embryo. He sings, “Erstwhile He banished me that I may no longer abide with Him and then He made one enter a human body...”(26:8). “From the elephant down to the ant I escaped from the extinctionless wombs. Finally I escaped during conception in human form from the throng of germs in the mother's womb: Escaped in the first moon month from the danger of the Thaandri shaped (Fruit of Terminalia bellerica. ) foetus splitting into two, Escaped in the second month from the amorphous state, Escaped in the third month from the profuse flow of the unbilical fluid, Escaped in the fourth month from the great darkness, |54i