DID Mahabharata exist or it just an EPIC any URls or any proof very much interested?
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Well, there exists an underwater palace on the coast of Dwarka, Gujarat where Krishna ruled after the war for 36 years. I believe it took place but not as the whole.
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LOL. The guy with the Morgan Freeman answer deserves best answer no matter what other answers show up. That was hilarious.\n\nOh, and the website below does a fairly good job of summarizing the Ramayana.\nhttp://www.indhistory.com/ramayana.html
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Checkout http://www.bharatadesam.com - Lots of Info about History of India
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I don't know for sure if the one you are looking for is here, but there is one that sounds like it.   I can't believe how many versions I found of this poem!!!
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try www.google.com \nim sure u must have heared about it
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Obviously, proof is a little hard here. It is quite impossible for anyone to PROVE they know anything about this topic.\n\nTry reading Dante's "The Divine Comedy". It is quite intriguing to say the least.
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Ok... this is long... I actually got a pretty bad grade during college for writing a paper about this and unfortunately using too many websites for information.  There is a lot of misinformation on the web (I no longer trust anything i read unless it's from an encyclopedia or reputable source online. Definitely not a martial arts website)   There also is a lot of misinformation in books written by authors such as "Si Fu Bob" and "how I will teach you the secrets of Shaolin Kung fu".  Basically, your history professor is correct. If you read textbooks written by college professors on Chan/Zen and Bodhidharma... they think his association with Bodhidharma is legend.  Some even dispute his existence at all.  If you read books on martial arts history, they'll say that his association with bodhidharma for sure is legend and that the Shaolin monks most likely harbored retired soldiers who knew self defense.  The concise encyclopedia brittanica will state that chinese martial arts harkens back to the 18th century B.C.  Go to google scholar (it has a lot of books written for the general public also with some books written by academics) or JSTOR (which has a better reference of articles written by academics) and look up "bodhidharma" and "legend."  All books written by academics will state that he is a legend and his association with martial arts is that... the general books written by regular folks for regular folks like "how to learn martial arts in 20 days" are hit and miss...  Hopefully, you didn't make the same mistake that I made and failed a midterm paper based on reading websites for info!\nOh, I found this answer in another area about kalaripayattu...\n\n"As to kalaripayattu....\nThere is no association historically between kalaripayattu and shaolin kung fu or any other martial arts. This only came about recently and has been pushed strongly by practitioners of kalaripayattu as an association (i guess to try and generate interest in the art). Unfortunately, the general pracitioners of kalaripayattu are unwilling to admit (although Professor Zarilli's book "When the Body Becomes All Eyes: Paradigms, Discourses and Practices of Power in Kalarippayattu, a South Indian Martial Art (Hardcover and almost all other books on kalaripayattu reference this)" that the earliest suggested birth of kalaripayattu is around 11th-13th century a.d. and that the earliest proof of kalaripayattu was from portuguese records in the 16th century a.d. No credible records of kalaripayattu exist before this.\n\nThe association between indian martial arts and chinese martial arts is between the legend of Bodhidharma (an Indian or Central asian monk, depending on the legend you use) who founded the Shaolin temple. The rumor began in the 1600's A.D. and was written by a Chinese Taoist monk who did not like the Shaolin monks.... \n\nThe first open association of Bodhidharma and the Shaolin martial arts is made in the 17th century A.d. and it states in the text that Bodhidharma created the exercises that developed into Shaolin quan in a cave in China after staring at a wall for nine years without moving. Between the founding of the Shaolin temple (600A.D.) and 1600A.D. no association has ever been made about Bodhidharma and Shaolin Kung Fu. \n\nFrom this legend in the 1600's A.D., kalaripayattu practitioners today  and other people have been trying to push that maybe Bodhidharma was a kalaripayattu practioner. If he was a kalaripayattu practitioner, then that must mean that kalaripayattu was created in the 600A.D. and is the progenitor of Shaolin Kung Fu and hence all martial arts! Of course, this disregards the other martial arts traditions in china that go back to before Shaolin kung fu by a few centuries.\n\nThere is physical and written evidence in China that martial arts as practiced by the Shaolin monks predate the 6th century A.D. and that most martial arts in most
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King Arthur really existed, but when you read the story, you will see it`s a legend, so some parts changed. The point is he really existed.
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Try these two:-\n\nhttp://www.bharatadesam.com/history/modern.php\n\nhttp://www.webindia123.com/history/MEDIEVAL/mughal%20period/mughal2.htm
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Give us examples of your claims if you can particularly for the Hinduism and Zoroastrianism. The Quran is a Book without a match in human history as its accuracy is down to the level of letters. After 1400 hundred years its challenge to all humans to bring a chapter similar to it is unmet and every day a new evidences of its miraculous nature is discovered.\nSee the following site for more info:\nhttp://www.islamreligion.com
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have u heard bout the KAMASUTRA? just read it once n u ll know everything about it!!
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ancient India.  its very old, and yes it still exists.\n\nPS.  I want my cape back.
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What kind of evidence?\n\n You wont get it that easily because Hindus do not believe it does matter. They simply do not feel the need to prove anything.So they have not presented details seeking evidences and publishing and pointing it out. \nDwarika, city of Krishna has been discovered some years back under sea. Mahabharat clearly stated that after Krishna's death Dwarika had submerged into sea. Krishna had asked Arjun to move the population from the city.\n\nThe recently discovered bridge currently named as Adam's Bridge made of chain of shoals, c.18 mi (30 km) long, in the Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka, reveals a mystery behind it. The bridge's unique curvature and composition by age reveals that it is man made. The legends as well as Archeological studies reveal that the first signs of human inhabitants in Sri Lanka date back to the a primitive age, about 17,50,000 years ago and the bridge's age is also almost equivalent. This information is a crucial aspect for an insight into the mysterious legend called Ramayana, which was supposed to have taken place in tretha yuga (more than 17,00,000 years ago). In this epic, there is a mentioning about a bridge, which was built between Rameshwaram (India) and Srilankan coast under the supervision of Rama who is supposed to be the incarnation of the supreme.\n\nBut archealogical evidences prove only that the person existed. \n\nGod (concept of or the real thing) is not about proof.\n\n        If you logic is your evidence in that case Hinduism is a vast philosophy. It is called SAnatan and is sanatan(eternal). It starts with most early beliefs and covers almost every kind of religious philosophy.  It has kings among its philosophers and even shudra philosophers. From Vashishtha, Agastya etc to kabeer and sant ravidas(a cobbler) had something to contribute.\n\nAccording to Carl Sagan, (1934-1996) astro-physicist, in his book Cosmos says:\n\n"The Hindu religion  is the only one of the world's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, to those of modern scientific cosmology. \n\nHindu cosmography, for example born in hoary antiquity, strikes one in certain ways as surprisingly modern. India has never limited its conception of time to a few crowded millennia. Thousands of years ago India's sages computed the earth's age at a little over two billion years, our present era being what is called the seventh Manuvantra. This is a staggering claim. Consider how much scientific evidence has been needed in the West before men could even imagine so enormous a time scale.\n\n"Hindu cosmography, for example born in hoary antiquity, strikes one in certain ways as surprisingly modern. India has never limited its conception of time to a few crowded millennia. Thousands of years ago India's sages computed the earth's age at a little over two billion years, our present era being what is called the seventh Manuvantra. This is a staggering claim. Consider how much scientific evidence has been needed in the West before men could even imagine so enormous a time scale." \n\n(source: Crises in Modern Thought: The Crises of Reason - By Swami Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters) vol. 1 p - 94)\n\nPrinceton University’s Paul Steinhardt and Cambridge University’s Neil Turok, have recently developed The Cyclical Model. \n\nThey have just fired their latest volley at that belief, saying there could be a timeless cycle of expansion and contraction. It’s an idea as old as Hinduism, updated for the 21st century. The theorists acknowledge that their cyclic concept draws upon religious and scientific ideas going back for millennia — echoing the "oscillating universe" model that was in vogue in the 1930s, as well as the Hindu belief that the universe has no beginning or end, but follows a cosmic cycle
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Long Story Short : Its a hoax\nThis story has been doing rounds in the net way back 9 years ago, in 1997 when the story was published in Times Of India on 21 February, 1997. You can check the date at http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/a8da930145866c1d\nI don't have the thumbnails of the OS at present, but when I saw it, I recognized immediately that it was Mandrake, a flavour of Linux, in reality, with the desktop wallpaper changed. \n\nIf the origin of the story is not a hoax, then following is my version : The student had taken Mandrake,  might have made changes in the source code to rename Mandrake with O-Yes and recompiled it. Such custom distros are available freely on net, where you can change the name. Mandrake in those days was certainly better than Windows 95, so here's how the story propogated. But the funny part is the name of the OS itself. Why on earth would he keep a name like that. Even if the first paragraph is believeble, the second paragraph removes any doubt for this mail to be true. This article was again published in Times of India around 2003, twice.\n\nAnother website was set up http://oyes.does.it. When someone ever accessed it, it gave the message "O-YES, You are our latest Bakra. # 945", with the number incrementing. The official site of this OS is http://oyes.thefreebizhost.com/, down for the last 2 years\n\nI can assure you there is going to be another round of such hoaxes. Just 2 days ago, i.e. 4th January 2006, Pratham Kumar, a student from Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology, Gujarat purchased the domain http://ramlalbhagat.com/. I actually ran a WHOIS query to see who owned the domain. He has even kept the page title as 'O Yes'. Contact him at pratham.kumar@gmail.com if you want to ask, when is the next round of hoax mails coming.\n\nHope this gives a detailed info on the hoax. Some other interesting places to study about it include :\n\nhttp://hindustan.net/discus/messages/60/13420.html?1134658861\nhttp://hindustan.net/discus/messages/60/13641.html?1091625286\nhttp://techmount.com/index.php/20041024/o-yes/\nhttp://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.indian/msg/a8da930145866c1d\nhttp://www.mail-archive.com/ilug-cal@ilug-cal.org/msg10070.html\nhttp://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1450/\nhttp://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:-JSPCMALB5kJ:www.barficulture.com/community/biztech/topic.php/2110/+oyes%2Bthefreebizhost.com&hl=en\nhttp://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/jan99/0415.html\nhttp://plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2004-September/013006.html\nhttp://www.vinuthomas.com/printout210.html\nhttp://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:-JSPCMALB5kJ:www.barficulture.com/community/biztech/topic.php/2110/+oyes%2Bthefreebizhost.com&hl=en
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go to:\nhttp://www.jpgmonline.com/article.asp?issn=0022-3859;year=1997;volume=43;issue=2;spage=50;epage=1;aulast=Deshmukh
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Oh, wow, there are SEVERAL.\n\ncheck out\nhttp://www.sacred-texts.com/\n\nTo name a few off the top of my head, there is:\nTaoism - Tao Te Ching, I Ching, Chuang Tze\nBuddhism - Tipitaka, Dhammapada, Lotus Sutra, Diamond Sutra\nHinduism - Besides those you mentioned, Mahabharata, Vedas (there are 4), Upanishads, Puranas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas, etc.\nZoroastrianism - Avesta\nSikhism - Guru Granth Sahib\nShinto - the Nihongi\n\nthose were just off the top of my head\n\nBuddhism has so many sacred texts, you cannot read them all in a lifetime.
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I think it is likely there was, as most myths have some basis in reality.  However, who he actually was is lost to the mists of time.  Check out the link for interesting details, especially about the evolution of the legend.