Comments on: Happy Rama Navami!

By: Jaydeepsinh Rathod

Jaydeepsinh Rathod — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:41:39 +0000

Happy Ram Navami Razib and to all our friends on the blog !

I would be interested to know how has your experience been reading the great text (the Mahabharata).

By: Saurav

Saurav — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 23:08:20 +0000

In reply to Scorpion Eater.

Considering the politics of today, i doubt any scholar would remotely attach ‘Dravidian and munda origins’ for Ram.

They might attach ‘invading genocidal Aryan’ to him though.

By: Mohan Nair

Mohan Nair — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 12:25:18 +0000

He was famously dark skinned.

By: Ugra

Ugra — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:08:34 +0000

In reply to GauravL. @GauravL Good hunch! This is also a major supposition by some scholars. At least in some parts of the Puranas, Ikshvakus are considered anarya who later accepted Vedic rites.

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:46:27 +0000

2/3rd is pretty good progress as its huge text. which translation you using ?

By: Ritesh

Ritesh — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 10:43:00 +0000

In reply to GauravL. There is one hypothesis about this which is by Edgar Caycee or CW Leadbeater who are so called faith healers/ They said Ram entered India from Atlantian civilization which was dying and the references of flying chariot etc are all the technologies present in atlantic civilization.

By: GauravL

GauravL — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 03:04:21 +0000

The Ishhvakus may have been earlier Indo Aryan migrants – earlier than the Rigvedic Aryans – As the Vedas are mainly compositions patronized by the Rigvedic – Puru Bharata – later Kuru rulers, its assumed by many that the eastern Ishvakus were outside the Kuru-Pancala orthodoxy – though clearly Aryan.

I would speculate that MB giving a peek itihasa of the Kuru-Pancala and RM being the itihasa of eastern Ishvakus of the Kosala- (Magadh?) region. Also interesting to note that the Jainas seem to have some important links to Ishvakus – 22/23 of the 24 Tirthankars were Ishvakus including Mahavir (who do not get that much coverage in the Vedic Canon).

By: Scorpion Eater

Scorpion Eater — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 02:22:28 +0000

“I’m pretty sure I know which Y haplogroup he was”

out of shear curiosity, i got interested in the genealogy of rama, did some googling, and found the wikipedia page on Ikshwaku, the earliest known ancestor of rama. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikshvaku
just as i suspected, pesky western scholars have already suggested dravidian and munda origins for him.