Many Western scholars and Indian scholars with
Western mindset tried to fix the age of Srimad Ramayana, to approximately the 5th to 4th century BC. And, they succeeded to some extent in making
the people from India believe the above fictitious theory.
If we study Srimad Ramayana in depth, we will
get a clue to this riddle.
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After conquering Lankhini, the Godess of Lanka, Sri Hanuma enters Lanka and searches for Seeta. Sage Valmiki describes what Sri Hanuma saw, as follows:
त्रिविष्टप निभम् दिव्यम् दिव्य नाद विनादितम् |
वाजि हेषित सम्घुष्टम् नादितम् भूषणैः तथा ||
रथैः यानैः विमानैः च तथा गज हयैः शुभैः |
वारणैः च चतुः दन्तैः श्वेत अभ्र निचय उपमैः ||
भूषितम् रुचिर द्वारम् मत्तैः च मृग पक्षिभिः |
राक्षस अधिपतेः गुप्तम् आविवेश गृहम् कपिः ||
(Sundara Kanda 4th Sarga 26 - 28 Slokas)
"The great Hanuma entered secretly Ravana's
inner city which was equal to paradise, rendered noisy by neighing of horses
and tinkling of ornaments, by chariots, vehicles and aerial-cars and decorated
by auspicious elephants and horses and great elephants with four tusks and by
birds and animals in heat. It had beautiful entrances and was protected by
thousands of rakshasas with great strength."
उत्तमम् राक्षसावासम् हनुमानवलोकयन् |
आससादाथ लक्ष्मीवान् राक्षसेन्द्रनिवेशनम् ||
चतुर् विषाणैर् द्विरदैः त्रिविषाणैः तथैव च |
परिक्षिप्तम् असम्बाधम् रक्ष्यमाणम् उदायुधैः ||
आससादाथ लक्ष्मीवान् राक्षसेन्द्रनिवेशनम् ||
चतुर् विषाणैर् द्विरदैः त्रिविषाणैः तथैव च |
परिक्षिप्तम् असम्बाधम् रक्ष्यमाणम् उदायुधैः ||
(Sundara Kanda 9th Sarga 4 - 5 Slokas)
“Thereafter, Hanuma the glorious one neared and observed the best
residence of Rakshasas and the house of Ravana, containing elephants with four
tusks and also those with three tusks, those with two tusks and still not
crowded. It was protected by soldiers bearing raised weapons.”
Here, the Sage Valmiki describing elephants with four tusks and also those with three tusks, those with two tusks.
Modern Anthropologists say that elephants with four tusks existed 12–1.6 million years ago.
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The Gomphotheriidae were a diverse taxonomic family of extinct elephant-like animals (proboscideans). Referred to as gomphotheres, they were widespread in North Americaduring the Miocene and Pliocene epochs, 12–1.6 million years ago. Some lived in parts ofEurasia, Beringia and, following the Great American Interchange, South America.
Gomphotheres differed from elephants in their tooth structure, particularly the chewing surfaces on themolar teeth. Most had four tusks, and their retracted facial and nasal bones prompt paleontologists to believe that gomphotheres had elephant-like trunks.
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Hence, we can infer that Srimad Ramayana was occurred 16 lakh or 1.6 million years ago and not 5th to 4th century BC, as the scholars tried to made us to believe.
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