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It is not a “narrative of 1000 years of slavery” which must be questioned, but Hindu holocaust deniers like @ashokkantha who want us to ignore the rape, enslavement, conversion & murder of millions of Hindus by Muslim kings, starting with Muhammad Qasim down to the last Mughal.
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Islamic invaders had sanction from their Holy book to enslave unlimited Kafirs as concubines (sex slaves) in war. Systematically enslaving millions of Hindu women in India from the very 1st invasion to the end of their reign served the main goal of converting the world to Islam
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In 8th c. after 14 failed Arab attempts, Qasim finally conquered Sindh. He massacred 6000 men & enslaved 60,000 women & kids in Rawar. In Brahmanabad 16,000 were killed & 1000s enslaved. Qasim kept 1/5 or 20,000 for himself which means 1 Lakh+ slaves were captured from Sindh.
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Yet from the very 1st invasion, Hindus resisted enslavement fiercely. In 712 A.D as Qasim savaged Sindh, Dahir’s sister Bai exhorted 1000s of women in the captive Rawar fort to commit Jauhar in the sacred fire to escape rape & torture at the hands of “chandals & cow-eaters’’.
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In 11th c. Mahmud of Ghazni was even more barbaric than Qasim & brutally enslaved Lakhs of Hindus. Utbi boasts that Mahmud enslaved half a million Indians in Waihind. Farishta gloats that the Muslims took 200,000 slaves back to Ghazni, & every J1hadi1 got numerous slaves.
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Alfi adds that 1/5 of the share for the Sayyids was 150,000 slaves indicating Ghazni may have enslaved upto 750,000 Hindus, Buddhists & Jains. ~2 Million died fighting Ghanzni’s army & their families were enslaved to be raped & savaged to death for the sake of Islamic supremacy
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All sections of Hindu society resisted the onslaught fiercely to protect families from massacre, enslavement & conversion. When left with no choice, Lakhs escaped into jungles & mountains. Many of these Hindus became the scheduled tribes & backward castes of present day India.
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In late 11th c., Mahmud’s son Ibrahim followed his father & enslaved 100,000 women & children after fierce battle. Hindus fought back but when entire families were enslaved, their innate loyalty to clan ensured the whole community was captured together leading to disaster.
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In the 12th c., Aibak enslaved 20,000 during his attack on Raja Bhim & 50,000 from Kalinjar. 100s of Temples were destroyed & made mosques. Ghori sent Aibak reinforcements as new Muslim converts from Central Asia poured in for loot & slaves, giving them a numerical advantage.
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In early 13th c. Balban massacred & enslaved 1000s in Ranthambore, Kampil, Patiali, Bhojpur, Katchar, & Mewat. He ordered general massacre of any Hindu male over 8 yrs & enslaved all the women & children. Capture of a live slave earned 2 Tankah & a Hindu's head earned 1 Tankah
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A Hindu slave had no choice except conversion or death. Even a weak Sultan like Nasiruddin, son of Iltumish, had so many slaves that he sent 40 to his chronicler for a “gift” to Khurasan. Thus most Indian Muslims are descendants of forcibly converted Hindu slave ancestors.
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In 13th c., Alauddin Khalji sacked & enslaved 20,000 women from Somnath. 30,000 men were massacred in Chittor. Khalji had 4,75,000 soldiers compared to just 3-4000 in Ratan Singh's army. Yet the brave Rajputs fought to the death & 16,000 women led by Padmavati committed Jauhar
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Arts & culture were devastated as all skilled Hindu artisans were enslaved. Chroniclers Afif & Barani describe Khalji’s 50,000 'boys' & 70,000 slaves working on buildings. Universities & libraries were decimated & Brahmins persecuted so widely that entire scripts were lost.
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In 14th c. Timur began the Mughal era by slaughtering 100,000 Hindus before attacking Delhi. They could not escape as their hands were tied to their necks & they were yoked together. 250,000 skilled Hindu builders were enslaved and taken back to Samarkand for their expertise.
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In the same era, Tughlaq was notorious for“distributing” Hindu women like sweets on Id. 1000s of enslaved women were forced to sing & dance - then raped. 2 Lakh skilled Hindus (12,000 stone-cutters) built all his cities & Lakhs had to clean & scavenge the city's trash & sewage
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In 15th c. Bahmani Sultan Tajuddin Firoz fought Vijayanagar & enslaved 60,000 Hindus. Many of the slaves were singers & dancers & musicians of highest caliber. They were forced to convert & degrade their expertise in classical Hindu arts to become performers in Islamic courts.
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In the 16th c. Akbar the “Great” sent skilled Hindu artisans as gifts to Muslim kings. Jahangir enslaved many Hindus during his hunts & traded them to Kabul for dogs & horses. Jahangir’s Uzbek governor massacred 1000s to enslave 2 Lakh Hindu women & children in Kalpi & Kher.
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In 17th c. Shah Jahan continued to send Hindu slaves to Muslim kings abroad. During his attack on the Portugese in Hugli he captured many Hindu & Portugese women including Maria De Taides & Thomazia Martins who were taken as slaves & distributed among Shah Jahan’s courtiers.
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By the 18th c. slavery by Muslims had existed for so long in India that Islamic rules on slaves had become too complex. Aurangzeb invited 100s of Islamic scholars to create Fatwa-i-Alamgiri which quoted Islamic authorities on rules for Muslim life & slavery in great detail.
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These horrifying rules stated Kafirs could never be freed. The object of enslaving Kafir “Bandis” including children was only to rape & produce Muslims. Female slaves were pieces of meat whose value reduced if they were dark skinned, handicapped, or sexually unattractive.
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Historical evidence by Muslim chroniclers shows ‘1000 years of slavery’ is no narrative but the brutal truth. Slavery, massacre & rape of millions of Hindus & destruction of Indic arts, culture, society & knowledge systems was the PRIMARY contribution of Muslim kings to India.
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Yet 1000 years of slavery did not mean 1000 years of rule over Hindus. Turkish rule lasted only about 150 yrs due to Rajput resistance & Vijayanagara Empire. Despite best attempts Muslim could never rule all of India. Their influence was limited to NW regions & around Delhi.
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By 17th c. Mughal Empire had declined & lost many territories due to sustained revolt by the Marathas in South, Ahoms in NE, Rajput rebellion in W & Sikhs in North. Hindu slavery became rare NOT due to Mughal benevolence but because Hindu warriors decimated the Muslim forces.
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Massive nations like Persia, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Spain, Byzantine, Syria, & Africa bowed to Islamic conquest in decades. But even 1000 years of Islamic attempts to enslave & genocide could not defeat Hindus from defending Dharma & rebuilding free Bharat back to its glory.
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Holi is famous as the Hindu festival of joyous revelry with colors, but beneath all that revelry lie ancient Vedic astronomical rituals deeply tied to the motion of the Sun and cosmic renewal.
In this thread I will attempt to explain how the various aspects of the festival of Holi are rooted in very ancient astronomical concepts like the Sun’s oscillation, the Vedic New Year ceremony, and the cyclical nature of time.
Today, we consider January 1st as the start of the New Year, but there was a time in ancient Vedic tradition, when the year once began in Phalguna (Holi’s month). Texts like Tilak’s Orion reference Vedic calendar systems where Phalguna marked both the end and beginning of the year, leading into the vernal equinox. This was a clear astronomical transition, where the Sun shifted northward, bringing longer days and renewed energy. So the festival of Holi, was not just a celebration of spring but a marker of time itself, rooted in the solar cycles of renewal.
Even today in Braj, Bengal and Odisha, Holi is celebrated as Dol-Yatra/Poornima, the Swing Festival, where Krishna is ceremonially rocked back and forth on a swing (hindola). This Vaishnavite festival represents the sun as a form of Vishnu. The celestial swinging motion is not arbitrary though, it symbolizes the pendulum like oscillation of the Sun as it moves across the sky between the two solstices of Dakshinayana (Sun’s southern journey, leading to winter, shorter days, and darkness) and Uttarayana (Sun’s northern journey, leading to summer, longer warmer days, and vitality)
Just as a pendulum pauses before reversing direction, the Sun reaches a turning point where it pauses before moving into its brighter phase. Holi marks that final swing before the Sun fully ascends into its strongest months. The Sun’s journey is cyclic, and Dol-Yatra preserves this cosmic motion in ritual form.
So, amazingly the Dol Utsav symbolizes a profound astronomical observation which marks the occasion where the sun is "rocking" into a new phase of the year in his journey across the sky - symbolized by Krishna in his Hindola!
Fascinatingly, even the central Holi ritual Holika Dahan, where an effigy of Holika is burned in a bonfire is not just from the legend about Prahlada and Bhagwan Narasimha saving him from his demoness aunt Holika - it is also a remnant of the Vedic Yagnas or fire sacrifices that marked the burning of the past year. The ancient Vedic New Year’s first yagna was called Agrahayana (which literally means the first month of the year in Sanskrit) and performed to burn away the impurities of the previous cycle to reset time itself. Agni is a cosmic purifier, ensuring that disease, disorder, and misfortune were consumed before the Sun entered its new phase. In several texts Holika herself is referred to as the sister of Samvat (year) who is cremated to usher in the new year. The word Holika itself likely comes from the combination of “Homa” (burnt offering in Yagna) and “Loka” (mankind), where it refers to humans gaining prosperity and good fortune from the performance of the Yagna itself.
Therefore, beginning the festival with the fire of Holika is not just a ceremonial destruction of all the bad things from the previous year, it is a cosmic reset, a purification of time itself in anticipation of a fresh start for the new year.
Hey @asadowaisi why are you resorting to quoting Richard M. Eaton - when Aurangzeb’s own official Islamic biography Maāsir-I-Ālamgiri itself lists him proudly destroying 300+ Hindu temples in Mewar in just one year alone (1680)! In his hateful quest to forcibly convert India into Dar-al-Islam, nothing was sacred. He desecrated innumerable Hindu gods, destroyed 500+ temples including Hinduism's holiest shrines, and built ugly mosques on top of them. Being a famous lawyer you should at least have looked up documented Islamic sources and respected Indian translators like Jadunath Sarkar who reference Aurangzeb’s destruction in great detail first.
As for the rest of your nonsensical lies about Pushyamitra Śunga and Raja Śaśanka destroying Buddhist sites - I will give you a history lesson on each one of these claims in next couple of days and debunk all your lies on them with meticulous references too. Hope you will read them just like this thread and apologize for falsifying history.
If you have the guts then go through this entire thread detailing all of Aurangzeb’s evil & horrific destruction of 500+ Hindu temples - entirely based on Islamic sources. After that If you have any shame left, apologize or else I challenge you to disprove a single incidence.
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Aurangzeb hated Hindus so much that he destroyed Mandirs even BEFORE becoming king! At the young age of 27, Aurangzeb destroyed the beautiful Chintaman temple, then forcibly converted it into a mosque & slaughtered a cow there. He then destroyed the temple of Khande Rai in Satara & proudly declared that he had gotten many temples in Gujarat demolished.
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Aurangzeb was practically salivating to destroy the sacred Somnath Mandir, which he did early in his reign & when Hindus tried to rebuild it, the vitriolic monster ordered it to be completely annihilated. In 1661, he ordered all Hindu temples in Cooch Bihar to be destroyed & mosques built on top of them. His general Mir Jumla himself broke Bhagwan Narayan's image with an axe.
Madanamahotsava: Bharat’s Ancient Festival of Love and Spring
Centuries before St. Valentine or even Christ, Hindus celebrated love - not for a single day, but for nine joyous days of devotion, romance, and revelry in spring’s embrace. This grand festival called Madanamahotsava, also known as Vasantotsava, honored Kamadeva (Madana), the god of love, alongside his consort Rati and Vasanta, the spirit of spring. Referenced in Vatsyayana’s Kamasutra (400 BCE) and called Suvasantaka, it was a grand celebration of music, dance, playful festivity, and sacred rites dedicated to the spirit of love, beginning on Vasanta Panchami and culminating in the Vasantanavratras.
Let's explore the history of Bharat's festival of love 🧵
One of the earliest mentions of Madanmahotsava is found in Vatsyayana's Kamasutra (400 BCE). Clad in resplendent attire, men and women gathered in temples and royal courts at the advent of spring, seeking the blessings of divine couples for love and prosperity. Hemadri’s Vratakhanda (13th c.) recounts in detail the legendary tale of Kamadeva awakening Shiva from deep meditation to tempt him into union with Gauri. Furious at his Tapasya being disturbed, Shiva reduced him to ashes with a single fiery glance. Kamadeva's distraught wife, Rati begged and pleaded with Lord Shiva for his revival. Moved by Rati’s unwavering devotion and Gauri's persuasion, Shiva, in his boundless compassion, granted that Kamadeva would once again regain his physical form every year on the 13th day of the bright half of the spring month. Thus, the annual festival of Madanamahotsava was born - enshrining the triumph of love and renewal.
Rituals described by Hemadri included intricate kolam paintings, worship of the Ashoka tree, and offerings of sandalwood, incense, and flowers to Kamadeva, Shiva, Vasanta, and Vighnesvara. The king and his court led grand ceremonies, distributing sweets, delicacies, and paan as dakshina. Couples exchanged fine garments, jewelry, and floral gifts, culminating in the Rasa-mahotsava, a divine dance in honor of Krishna and Radha.
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Indeed, Aurangzeb was not just any ordinary evil king - he epitomized the demonic savagery of Islamic fanaticism powered by hatred against infidel Hindu Kafirs. Aurangzeb was obsessed with such virulent hatred against Hindus that his official biography Maāsir-I-Ālamgiri itself lists him proudly destroying 300+ Hindu temples in Mewar in just one year alone (1680)! In his hateful quest to forcibly convert India into Dar-al-Islam, nothing was sacred. He desecrated innumerable Hindu gods, destroyed 1000s of temples including Hinduism's holiest shrines, and built ugly mosques on top of them. If you have the guts then read this entire thread detailing all his evil - entirely based on Islamic sources, and then do some soul searching for calling such a barbaric monster "Great".
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Aurangzeb hated Hindus so much that he destroyed Mandirs even BEFORE becoming king! At the young age of 27, Aurangzeb destroyed the beautiful Chintaman temple, then forcibly converted it into a mosque & slaughtered a cow there. He then destroyed the temple of Khande Rai in Satara & proudly declared that he had gotten many temples in Gujarat demolished.
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Aurangzeb was practically salivating to destroy the sacred Somnath Mandir, which he did early in his reign & when Hindus tried to rebuild it, the vitriolic monster ordered it to be completely annihilated. In 1661, he ordered all Hindu temples in Cooch Bihar to be destroyed & mosques built on top of them. His general Mir Jumla himself broke Bhagwan Narayan's image with an axe.
1/7 The insidious agenda and lack of academic integrity of Ruchika Sharma, PhD in history from JNU & self-proclaimed academic expert, stands thoroughly exposed when we analyze her peer-reviewed paper (bit.ly/4h1tcSv) in the Journal of Archaeological Studies in India. Let's deconstruct her paper claim by fallacious claim and scrutinize it against factual evidence. I have created a summary table for easy reference. Please read entire thread for full details.🧵
False Assertion 1: Ruchika's primary claim in her paper is that Malwa Sultan Mahmud Khalji built a grand Islamic general hospital (Dar-us-Shifa) at Mandu, MP in 1443 CE which she identifies with an existing monument called “Gada Shah’s Shop” in Mandu. (Img 2)
Reality: Shockingly, Ruchika deliberately leaves out contradictory evidence from her OWN cited source (Ghulam, Yazdani (1929), Mandu: The City of Joy) which states that the structure Ruchika tries to misappropriate as an Islamic hospital was actually the royal Durbar/audience hall of Hindu Rajput King Medini Rai. (Img 3: Yazdani, p. 28, 79) Gada Shah is none other than Medini Rai. Medini Rai’s Durbar Hall was later called Gada Shah’s Shop by the Muslims. Rajput Medini Rai overthrew Mahmud Khalji’s son Mahmud 2 and ruled Mandu as a vassal of Rana Sangha from 1519 - 1528 CE. Ruchika’s source Yazdani also points out that both Gada Shah’s Shop (which she claims is Khalji’s hospital) and Gada Shah’s House (Palace) were built AFTER Khalji’s death by Medini Rai in the same architectural style. Two huge mural paintings of Medini Rai and his queen are still to be seen in Gada Shah’s House. The world-famous German art historian Dr. Hermann Goetz, an expert on Indo-Persian architecture, also clearly identified Gada Shah’s Shop and Gada Shah’s Palace as Rajput Medini Rai’s Durbar/Audience hall and palace residence in Mandu. (Img 4: Goetz)
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2/7 False Assertion 2: Ruchika’s entire identification of Medini Rai’s Durbar (Gada Shah’s Shop) with Khalji’s Islamic hospital is based on her personal architectural observations that the building is divided into two chambers which she assumes represent separate male and female patient chambers. She also cites that the “existence of small rooms but also big halls” matches Khalji’s Islamic hospital. (Img 5)
Reality: Ruchika’s own Islamic sources don’t even specify whether the hospital was located in Mandu. Her unsupported conjectural claim again completely ignores her own source Yazdani who points out that Medini Rai’s Durbar (now known as Gada Shah’s Shop) was built for the purpose of serving as a grand audience hall (durbar). In fact her source Yazdani even specifies that it was a Durbar-i-aam built for granting audience to the public while the nearby Hindōl Mahal served the purpose of a Durbar-i-Khas (Audience hall for select assemblies). (Img 7) This explains exactly why the architecture has such grand arches and separate small rooms because they were often built as showpieces of royal prestige. The usage of such grand arches makes no sense for the purpose of a building built as a hospital. Like Yazdani, Dr. Goetz also clearly states that Gada Shah’s Shop (Medini Rai’s Durbar) has “massive sloping buttresses because of the lateral pressure of the huge arches supporting the roof of the Audience Room”. (Img 8) Even the ASI website clearly labels the structure as an audience hall. Yet Ruchika ignores all this insurmountable proof, and makes the bizarre claim that this was Khalji’s Islamic hospital without a shred of objective evidence.
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3/7 False Assertion # 3: Ruchika’s Islamic source mentions a Hammam (Bath house) adjoining Khalji’s hospital. But since no such structure exists near Medini Rai’s durbar (Gada Shah’s Shop) - Ruchika claims that “scattered remains of a tank exist … which could have been the bath houses (hammam) that Shihab Hakim (1968, p. 64) points to.” She also claims the building is far away from the palace area but in close proximity to Khalji’s other buildings like the Madrasa and the Jama Masjid. (Img 9)
Reality: We can refer directly to Google Maps which clearly demonstrate that the only water tanks/reservoirs near Medini Rai’s durbar (Gada Shah’s Shop) are the Ujala baodi, the Prachin Hindu Baodi and Kapur tank. These were all obviously built as reservoirs for the Durbar halls and palaces and show no evidence of being used as Hammams. (Img 10) Google Maps also busts Ruchika’s false claim that her so-called “hospital” is located near Khalji’s Masjid & Madrasa. As can be clearly seen on the map, Medini Rai’s durbar (Gada Shah’s Shop) is a good distance away from the cluster of Khalji’s buildings which are further South. (Img 11) Clearly there is no evidence of any Hammam near Medini Rai’s durbar, but there are Hindus Baodis (wells) and Water tanks (Kapur tank). Thus Ruchika’s desperate attempt to retrofit her utterly flawed claim by misrepresenting geographical facts falls flat on its face.
Talk about a nasty bag full of distortions and outright lies. That Shree Rama existed centuries before Buddha was even born is attested directly by authentic Buddhist sources themselves. I will methodically dissect and disprove every deceptive claim by fact checking it against authoritative and authentic sources. Please read all parts of the entire thread to the end including the screenshots which provide crucial evidence. 🧵
Claim # 1:
Ram is a mythological character, whereas Buddha was a real historical figure—there’s simply no comparison.
Fact: False. This claim is disproven by the oldest & most authoritative Buddhist biography of Buddha’s life itself - Aśvaghoṣa’s (2nd c.) Buddhacharita. The Buddhacharita documents that Buddha belonged to the same Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty as Rama; it pays homage to Valmiki as the Adikavi and mentions Janaka too. After he renounces his family, Buddha’s father sends a wise advisor to the forest to try & convince him to return back home. The advisor tries to persuade him to return by mentioning Rama as an example - as someone from older times, who returned after penance in forests to protect his kingdom against evil. In response Buddha himself says he cannot do what Rama did & refuses to return. This clearly proves that Rama was already revered as an ancient historical personality to be emulated in Buddha’s times.
Claim # 2: Buddha was not a descendant of Ram because Ram never existed in reality.
Fact: False. Disproved by the very first chapter on Buddha’s Birth in the authoritative biography Buddhacharita which records that Buddha was a descendant of the Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty - from the same lineage to which Rama belonged millennia before him. An even older account of Buddha’s ancestral family tree is found in the Buddhist text Mahāvastu, a composite multi-life hagiography of the Buddha (2nd c. BCE) which details how the sons of Ikshvaku built Kapilavastu and were the forefathers of the Shakyas - the clan of the Buddha.
Claim #3: In fact, Buddha lived long before the Valmiki Ramayana was compiled.
Fact: False. We already know that Rama lived many millennia before Buddha from irrefutable evidence in the Ramayana itself & many other Hindu texts.Authoritative Buddhist texts like Mahavamsa also clearly record the Shakya clan as part of Suryavanshi Ikshvaku dynasty with the line of succession from Rishi Sagara to Dasharatha & Rama who lived many generations before Suddhodana (Buddha’s father). Moreover Princeton historian, Robert Goldman's comprehensive comparative analysis of the Ramayana proves that the descriptions of history & geography of Kosala in the Ramayana clearly reflect an era BEFORE the Buddha thus dating it prior to 5th c. BCE (time of Buddha) even by Western standards. His work is considered the most comprehensive & authoritative Western analysis of Ramayana’s historicity. As mentioned before the Buddhacharita also testifies to Valmiki already being revered as the ancient Adi Kavi during Buddha's era.