Do Hindu mythologies have real history backing?
ramayana and mahabharatha are called ithihasas which means history… http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itihasa there are other puranas which are mythologies which would have happened or not,.but has high philosophical content in them..
What appears to you as MYTHOLOGY was HISTORY for the generations just after age of RAM-SEETA. What is NEWS today becomes HISTORY tomorrow, and when the tides of ‘time’ almost destroys the signs of human civilisations, those very events which had enormous ethical, cultural and spiritual impacts, would become MYTHOLOGY whose evidences are hard to be found. Can one prove the events associated with HOLY JESUS or the father of Islam, the Great son of Allah, MOHAMMAD. Regarding, the existence of RAM, the mythical Lord incarnation to guide the then confused human society, of their moral and social duties, the city named AYODHYA exists. The places described in the epic RAMAYANA are more or less exist even today in the most part of central india. Seeta was described as born in a place (what is called SITAMARHI in Bihar) named Janakpur which is situated along the Indo-Nepal border. Most places described in the two great Hindu Epics of RAMAYANA and MAHABHARATA are still known by their ancient nam
No they dont have any historical evidence. No temples, no buildings, no fossils, no artifacts, nothing. The closest thing that relates mythology to real things is folklore, for example, about some mountains, or rivers that were as a result of some incidents mentioned in the literature. For example, the strip in the sea between India and Sri Lanka where the sea is shallow, it resembles a bridge and it is a natural formation, it’s called ‘Adam’s bridge’.
