Sacred Texts & Epics
Dating of the Ramayana and Mahabharata — Nilesh Oak (Talk Summary)
Astronomy as a dating instrument for the epics — summary in preparation.
Indic Warriors Editorial · 17 August 2026 · 1 min read
Itihaasa as Reality
Reading the epics as civilizational memory.
The epics call themselves itihaasa — 'thus indeed it was' — a claim our textbooks quietly downgrade to mythology. This shelf takes the claim seriously enough to examine it: the astronomy embedded in the Mahabharata, the geography of the Ramayana, the archaeology at the named sites, and the scholarly debates on all of it. We publish the arguments and the…
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The epics call themselves itihaasa — 'thus indeed it was' — a claim our textbooks quietly downgrade to mythology. This shelf takes the claim seriously enough to examine it: the astronomy embedded in the Mahabharata, the geography of the Ramayana, the archaeology at the named sites, and the scholarly debates on all of it. We publish the arguments and the objections together, because a tradition confident of its memory does not need to protect it from questions.