We often tend to get confused as to History of India (especially, the ancient) and the epics or mythology when it comes to the characters- real or imagined? In the first place, we do not have any clear idea about the history of India before 2500 years when Mahavira and Gautama lived. So also, the accounts of Kings and Rulers before 3500 years, say of Mahabharata and Ramayana days. Definitely, we do not know anything about the kruta/satya yuga, the beginning of the present vaivasvata mantara. Now, all our knowledge incomplete, full of uncertainties. So what we should do is to get a clear idea about the veracity of the scriptures we possess. Many of these are incomplete! It is also not clear as to who wrote these! It was customary to avoid writing the names of the author during those days and everything was attributed to Veda vyasa meaning, the 'All-knowing one'! Thus, the predicament is how to sort out things.
The mythological characters are like the Greek or Roman mythologies and we should be careful to distinguish the real and the imaginary! The characters are all imaginary in mythology. We do not have any clear cut history of ancient India and it goes bach to almost 500 000 years when actually Brahma (in Burma/Myanmar and China), Vishnu (in Indonesia), Maheshvara (in Kailas or Himalaya parvata) and Nrsimha Deva (in Mongolia), Kashyapa Muni (on the banks of Caspian Sea), Ravana, Kubera and other ruled and the people worshiped Kings as Gods! Geography of India half-a-million years ago was also different! Rk Veda samhita gives a detailed account of all these! Even Sri Ramachandra of Ayodhya is not a recent historical person, but a name Dasharatha gave to his son after the God Rama whom he was worshiping as a family deity. Rama of the first Vivasvanta manvantara is the Sun only. Sita is the embodiment of pruthvi (daughter of King Pruthu, manifest form of Surya) who ruled for 1 000 000 years! So, one has to study carefully all these important issues and arrive at a reasonable conclusion as to the way we have come to the present.
The tragic part of the story, the history of India, is that we are a degenerated nation with all worn-out and wasted genes and came to a state of barbarism from one of the greatest days of civilization. Now, it seems there is no other go but to remove the dilapidated old house and build a new one in its place?
When piety, dharma or righteousness is totally neglected, the wise ones should try to restore it. No God will ever come to help us! we have to help ourselves. We should emerge as avatara purusha and restore dharma.
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