Obviously its just a story...who believes that a monkey can pick up a mountain and fly 3000 Km's and make a fish pregnant? Or that a woman can have 100 children (99 males) in a lifetime (god know how!) even though her husband was blind ROFL
for the record I have no bloody idea of WTH the OP is talking about . I'll assume it's some kind of strange hindu stuff . To much ganja dude ?
Actually Helvetti, there is enough archeological evidence to suggest that battle of Mahabharata did take place in Kurukshetra, and Hastinapur was an important town of that period. However, historians believe there has been a lot of exaggeration in the story, particularly of the fact that the royals lived in palaces etc (they were more like village settlements). In fact, the war of Mahabharata was more of a battle between different tribes than between kings and princes of royal households. This comes from a friend whose studied History(hons) in college. I'll try and find some links and post them. Apocalypse, it isn't strange Hindu stuff lol. Mahabharata is the biggest piece of literature in literary history. I've linked the word to its Wikipedia article in the first sentence.
Ah , yes now I remember it . I think I've even read it once and classified it at the impossible literature section . Indian names just sound totally strange to this one
Apo, its Hindu mythologies and epics - that's how simple u can describe it up Apo don't worry there's a movie coming about on Ramayana with lead hollywood cast , so u will get little idea about it if u watch that up. The movie hasn't taken into sets yet but its been planned itseems I don't remember the cast name rumors though. Anyhow, on the topic its a Myth. Ones who wish to believe can believe and who don't wish to can do. Its on everyone's personal beliefs. No pressurization around.
Why you ask these questions here. No one is from the past. Go and search on the net. Not only you are asking something that you won't get an answer to, you are opening a room for a long conversation and fight I wonder why you always are against such things. There is so much evidence. Those places still exist like ayodhaya etc and even a guy whose was cursed to roam the whole time in jungle is still in a jungle. In fact hinuism had so much information about science and literature that even the modern world doesn't. It was all destroyed by invaders. Belive me. The vehichle in which Raavan took sitaji was not fiction it did exist with science.
If a castle in England is evidence enough of Hogwarts existing and Harry Potter stories being true then I'll believe that existing of a city is evidence enough of Ramayana being true. O'Really? Can you show me a picture of him roaming in the jungle taken from a modern 16MP cam so I can have it put up on a billboard? Let us for a moment assume that it is true. Then did the Invades also destroy all remarkable cross-species like Monkey-Human, Monkey-Fish, Elephant Headed-Human, Four Hand woman, Flying talking mega large eagle who fought Ravan in his flying car? Wow the invader didn't even leave a fossil or a trace of DNA. Dude here's the deal - I'm a big fan of Harry Potter so if you concede that trolls, dragons, unicorns, Giants, Gooblins written in my book exist then I'll say that Monkey-Human, Monkey-Fish, Elephant Headed-Human, Four Hand woman, Flying talking mega large eagle who fought Ravan in his flying car in your book exist . Is it hard to make out that it was just a friggin story??!
There is enough fiction in mythology Helvetti, with both epics being passed down orally for generations before being written. There is bound to be exaggeration and speculation, but there is some fact upon which the two epics were based. I'd like to concentrate on Mahabharata for now; some links of evidences: 1. Dating Mahabharata - Two Eclipses in Thirteen Days by Dr S. Balakrishna 2. The Mahabharata and the Sindhu-Sarasvati Tradition by Subhash Kak (pdf) 3. The Mahabharata War – The Veracity of Epic Proved by Recent Archaeological Excavations by Dr KM Rao By this way, this English translation of Mahabharata seems to have struck the right chord looking at the reviews on Amazon.
* Heavy sigh * Why do you rely too much on the present scenario. Let me tell you that 99% of actual species have gone extinct since then and correction that he was not monekey god he was Pavanputra. Son of wind god who just looked like a monkey. Now you will say how can air be god. They are. But now everything is not so transparent due to population etc. In a recent period a chariot was found deep inside the grounds of Kurukshetra and it had the same marks. There was a temple that Krishna ji had created in a river and the temple still exists there. Have you seen the comparison between north and south India. The invaders looted mostly from north Inida and destroyed mostly Northern temples. That is why in South there are plenty of large temples.. These are just some of the things that came into my mind. There are plenty. Also Hinduism does not only give you stories to cherish on. Have you heard of something called yoga and most importantly tried it. Yoga contains cure of cancer also. Americans have even in the past made lots of medicines through yoga's tips.