One by one lot of myths regarding ancient India and Hinduism are falling off. One major one going around was that ancient Hindus did not have a sense of history.Well it all depends on what you look upon as 'history'. If its ok to accept the accounts of Greek historians, keeping reasonable protions of their descriptions and disregarding their fantastic stories and notions, it should be equally ok to accept the Puranas as history!
Recently a very ancient Purana has been traced and translated by Dr. James Mitchiner, the British Deputy High Commissioner in Kolkata.
Fascinating stuff - gicing first-hand accounts of the Indo-Greek and Saka invasions of India. wonder how much more of such material must be lying away as archival material in dusty libraries!
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