09-27-2004, 10:40 PM
<i>Now someone from west confirmed it, so it is true otherwise it was a myth, Now we can pat on our back <!--emo&
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<b>Ramayana was real: American professor</b>
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Hyderabad, Sept. 24: Professor Robert P Goldman, director of the University of California Education Abroad Programme, termed the epic Ramayana a "real-life" account. Delivering a lecture on `Ramayana: Medieval Indian Interpretations', organised by the University of Hyderabad as part of its distinguished lecture series, Goldman rejected the Western view that Ramayana was a mixture of the real and the mythological.
"There's clear-cut evidence to show that the incidents described in Ramayana took place," he said here on Friday. Goldman said the experts had calculated the exact period in which the war between Lord Rama and Ravana took place and the time taken by Lord Hanuman to bring the Sanjeevani herb and how long the demon Kumbhakarna used to sleep.
Goldman said he believed that Hanuman flew to Sri Lanka and spoke a human language. "It is something supernatural and something natural," <b>he said. "It is not myth as is generally claimed by some Westerners</b>. Rama-yana is a reality."
--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> .</i><b>Ramayana was real: American professor</b>
www.deccan.com/City/CityNews.asp?
Hyderabad, Sept. 24: Professor Robert P Goldman, director of the University of California Education Abroad Programme, termed the epic Ramayana a "real-life" account. Delivering a lecture on `Ramayana: Medieval Indian Interpretations', organised by the University of Hyderabad as part of its distinguished lecture series, Goldman rejected the Western view that Ramayana was a mixture of the real and the mythological.
"There's clear-cut evidence to show that the incidents described in Ramayana took place," he said here on Friday. Goldman said the experts had calculated the exact period in which the war between Lord Rama and Ravana took place and the time taken by Lord Hanuman to bring the Sanjeevani herb and how long the demon Kumbhakarna used to sleep.
Goldman said he believed that Hanuman flew to Sri Lanka and spoke a human language. "It is something supernatural and something natural," <b>he said. "It is not myth as is generally claimed by some Westerners</b>. Rama-yana is a reality."