Released on March 29, 1963, Lavakusa, the first full length colour film in Telugu, broke all previous box office records. It won the silver medal as the best Telugu film at the National Film Awards. Its Tamil version, released on April 19, 1963 was also a massive hit. The dubbed Hindi version of Lavakusa too fared well.
So, Valmiki took a grass (Kusha), cut it off (lava) into two parts and sanctified it with mantras. He instructed the women there to rub the upper part to the elder boy and the lower part to the younger boy. That is how they came to be known as Lava and Kusha. [7.66.4-7]It is known in some folk-lores that some probably take that ritual that Valmiki did to save the new born twins from the effect of ghosts, demons etc. as a cloning process, but it is not. As evident from the scripture, Sita gave birth to two sons, there were no clones made by Valmiki.
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