Itihasa-purana - II

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<!--QuoteBegin-gangajal+Feb 14 2006, 06:08 AM-->QUOTE(gangajal @ Feb 14 2006, 06:08 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->ben ami,
    Of course men could not talk to apes. One should not read Ramayana so literally.

gangajal
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<!--QuoteBegin-Sunder+Feb 14 2006, 08:10 AM-->QUOTE(Sunder @ Feb 14 2006, 08:10 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->From the description given by Valmiki, Hanuman definitely had a tail and he was proud of it. Also, Hanuman according to Valmiki had the powers to physically change his size at will.

Thus, even if you take the vanaras to be monkeys, they were no ordinary monkeys. Hanuman was literate, educated, and well versed in diplomacy, warfare, and other fine arts.

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thanks very much.


my other questions which i hope will be answered, are -

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does anyone know of vikramshila??? its pretty good (big) and old too. i have been there from bhagalpur.


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The Caspian sea, which in Vedic times was called Kasyapa Mira, has got its name from Rishi Kashyap.

so, did he go there?? can someone post about the vedic knowlede of world geography?? is it true that america was a-maraka?? and that denmark is danav-marg ?? just how much of geography did the puranas and other ancient records mention, correctly that is???


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so where does all this fit in with herodotus' Lemuria, the kumari kandam concept and the "atlantis in the indian ocean" thingie??

as for the emigrants from orissa... would that be the Oriya speaking Kalingas or the tribals (vanaras!!!) of orissa??