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Mythology or History: I report, you decide

Posted by VASUDEVA REDDY on Thursday, September 14, 2017, In : ancient history 

"And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth."- Galadriel in Lord of the Rings

Whatever we call history will become myth someday in future, and whatever we call as myth had its history at some point in the past. Harvard University is going to offer classes on Ramayana and Mahabharata in the upcoming fall semester with the course titled, “Indian Religions Through Their Narrative Literatures". “The Indian epics are long and comp...


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Kurukshetra: History or Myth?

Posted by VASUDEVA REDDY on Wednesday, December 28, 2011, In : ancient history 

Modern world has seen many wars, the biggest war that modern world had seen is World War II, which has accounted for 73 million causalities.  But, according to Indian mythology (for instance), Kurukshetra was the Great War that world has ever seen. According to Mahabharata, One billion 660 million and 20,000 men have fallen in this battle (Mahabharata, book 11, chapter 6, verses 7&8)1.  As many people know Mahabharata has 18 parvas, among which 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th parvas deal with the Great...


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