Thread by @jayasartn

Part 1 of my talk on Rama's time in #Mediyaan
I spoke about
* why Ramayana is a true story
* yuga concept
* long term Yuga measured by planets
* short term Yuga measured by Dharma.
Rama lived in Treta 'Dharma' Yuga that lasted between 10k to 7k yrs ago.

Part 2 of my talk to #Mediyaan
on
* Rama as a contemporary of Valmiki
* contemporariness makes Ramayana a reliable and true source of Rama's life
* the formulation of avatara concept
* avataras in human bodies and in other forms.

Part 3 of my talk to #Mediyaan is about
* Location of Ravana's Lanka
* Location of Kavaatam from where Lanka is near
* Authenticity of Ram Setu built by the Vaanaras
* The evidence of monkeys building a bridge in a painting of Minoan culture

In Part 4 of my talk on Ram Setu to #Mediyaan I focussed on
* Pandyans influencing the Minoan culture
* Spread of Shiva worship as far as Scandinavia in native religions like Saivu
* Ganga reaching Setu
* Bharat as 'Aasetu Himachala'

In part 5 of my talk to #Mediyaan I focused on
* the nature of the path laid by Rama and the Vaanaras
* the suggestion by Governor Pentland of the colonial period to declare Ram Setu as a National Heritage symbol in the year 1914.

In part 6 of my talk in #Mediyaan I establish
* the location of Ravana as a 3- walled city on a mountain
* evidences from Tamil on Rama as one who destroyed Ravana's city
* why Suryanar koil pontiff was wrong on claiming that Rama was Iskcon creation

Part 7 of my talk in #Mediyaan

* Identified the Manushya bhasha of Ramayana.
* It was 'Madhura' bhasha which was none other than Tamil language.
* Tamil proverb in Ramayana
* Tamil - Sanskrit together formed all Indian languages

Part 8 of my talk in #Mediyaan
on
* Rama's brothers and places occupied or formed by them.
* Places such as Peshawar and Taxila now in Pakistan were formed by Bharata.
* 'Rama's throne' was said to have been formed by Bharata in the Swat region.

Part 9 of my talk to #Mediyaan covers subtle issues of dharma to be followed at different occasions as shown in Ramayana.
Such as
* Rama obeying his father (pitru Vakhya paripalana), but Bharata not obeying his mother.