Ramayan and Charles Darwin.

Expecting the unexpected?

Ramayan

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Something like writing that Darwin's Ramayana. Well, I don't have that much of a foolish dare to attempt such and let the copyright be reserved, as it was, for Muni Valmiki. Ramayana, more than two thousand and five hundred years old, written and considered as the World's Longest Epic expresses the beautiful story of Lord Ram [the Incarnation of Lord Vishnu] and his fight against the Evils of the Time, saving his beloved wife Sita from the hands of the evil Ravana and his family.

Ramayana also speaks of worldly conspiracy that brews in the family. The art of Polygamy or now a days, several kin-related rivalry, or conspiring against the rightful comes up front. But, I am not here to explain Ramayan or be a Nanny, to tell bedtime stories. I am here, writing in this blog of mine, a piece of thought, a concept, which I believe can be logically accepted with a scientific art of view.

Muni Valmiki. 

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There is common understanding that Ramayana has an Aryan mindset in the whole plot, where Lord Ram have been depicted as the representative of good [The self clan of Aryans] and the Evil King, Ravana have been depicted as the representative of evil [The actual inhabitants of India, the Dravidians] Described in looks and other aspects, Ravana's clan of Rakshasas had the present South Indian, Dravidian looks! 

Its well know that around 2000B.C, the human migration led the Aryans come from the middle east and invade the Northern and North Western frontiers of India. They slow drove the Dravidians down across the Vindyas, in the Deccan plateau. Later on, in around 1500B.C, the Ramayana came into existence. The Good, for the own tribe's residence, Rama became the hero of the Aryans and Ravana was depicted the evil lord of the Dravidians! The modern Human Genome project has shown the origin of modern Homo sapiens from Africa, who started migrating out of Africa some 6000years ago, taking the clock back to 4500B.C, or so.

The Great Human Migration. 

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Around the time of the Ramayana, it was an epoch whence the Aryan clans from Middle East and Asia Minor started invading, across the plains of the Indus. They were ursurping the early inhabitants of India, the Dravidians, who had settled some 2000years before them. Taking 6000years as the land mark and 4000years as the entry point of the Aryans, Dravidians, who followed the Coastal route of migration outside Africa, came to the places which now has the States of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Lakswadeep and Andaman/Nicobar. Very recently, the Bo tribe's last living individual died ending to one of the most native cult of the Andamans, having link to the ancient times of Great Migration!

Aryan Invasion. 

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A common belief, and I better not trouble it!

The Dravidian Location.

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What I would like to put forward, different from the concept of common argument and what the topic has always advocated is, Does Darwin's principle of evolution or better say Evolution get reflected from the pages of Ramayana?

Where? Now that is the question that I would love to ask!

In the concept of Evolution we get to know that the modern humans came from apes! In ramayana, we have a proper explanation of a character, called Hanuman, which in the modern era we know as the Macaque Monkeys. Very sociable as well as notorious animals! Hanuman was notorious, devastating Lanka but was a great help for his master, Shri Ram. The face of Hanuman, brings to my mind the idea of evolution, where, the humans evolved from the apes. The time period that I am talking is not very modern, 2000B.C or so! Its quite feasible that the modern humans were coming out in large numbers, increasing the reproducibility while the older prototypes, were getting lost due to lost of fertility. Survival of the Fittest! But why the monkeys?

Hanuman and Shri Ram.

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The face reminds of the Lord. With Ravana looking like the Dravidians and so did all the family members and the soldiers, the Hanuman was depicted as a Monkey clan, almost having human features! Ram did kill Ravana, limiting the access of the dynasty and clan beyond the Vindyas [in Central India], has a smell of Aryan activities over time.

The Great Battle ~ Rama kills Ravana

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May be, Hanuman or likes of him are still not erased from the face of the Earth. Darwin has deciphered the mystery of the Finches. The Hanuman likes may still be present and again due to reproductive decline, the clan remains secluded. I believe in certain pep talks from travellers of seeing the Yeti and what ever visual account we have of the Yeti, they look like Hanumans....in the Himalayas!

The Yeti

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May be Darwin have not lost. A few days back, his great grandson's genes gave way to the fact that Darwin's clan had been first to leave Africa, the human genome project has much to give still. We may have the mysteries solved, once we get hold of a Yeti, where the Lord Hanuman problem gets cleared...but as all scientists, I believe in the Lords and Gods, unless different concepts are proved.

This article is solely what I believe as a food for the brain... I have no harsh feeling for Lord Rama nor for Lord Hanuman!

Sir Charles Darwin

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