User:Jijithnr

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I am a scientist from India, working in a Space Research Organization. (Date of birth: 04 August 1977.) I have considerable interest in Ancient Indian History. My idea is to extract historical and geographical information of Ancient India during the period between 500 AD and 6000 BC, by analyzing the Sanskrit literature like Mahabharata, Ramayana, Puranas and Vedas.

I started reading the Indian epics from the age of ten. Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, in Sanskrit translated to Malayalam by Dr PS Nair was my first book. This became a craze and I continued analyzing these books. Now i am 29 years old in 2006. During this time, i graduated in Electronics and Communications Engineering, worked as a Web Programmer, a Game Engineer, and finally now work as a Space Scientist. Still my interest in the Ancient Indian History is alive and i am doing it as a part time research.

I find Wikipedia as a wonderful media, to grow and discuss ideas, and to express myself, to know about people with similar interest. I hope to continue with Wikipedia. The experience is wonderful.

My strong belief is that mythology is nothing but a transformation of history. Absolute events transform into history after a few decades and history transforms into mythology after a few centuraries. It is always possible to extract history from mythology and absolute events from history, but with a predictable loss of information.

My view on the Indian epics Mahabharata and Ramayana is that they are the substitutes of history of the period they describe. Just like a candle-light is better than total darkness, these epics serve to tell us something about those periods. In the absence of a proper history to describing these periods, Mahabharata and Ramayana serve as something close to it. They are closer to historical documents than to mythological or imaginative works. It is very inappropriate to dismiss them as mere imaginations or as fables and legends or even as mythology. Careful readers can easily separate, fact and fiction from the narrations in Mahabharata and Ramayana.

I will put it this way:-

Mahabharata:- Historical content (aprox. 80%) Mythological content (aprox 20%)

Ramayana:- Historical content (aprox. 70%) Mythological content (aprox 30%)

Puranas:- Historical content (aprox. 50%) Mythological content (aprox 50%)

Dear Wikipedian friends,

I am happy to tell u that on 15th of June 2006 i am blessed with a son. He is taking a lot of my wikepedia time and he must. Great work by all those editors now working on the Kurukshetra War article. I wish to resume my work as soon as possible.