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Was Krishna a Real Person? Here's How Historians Actually Try to Answer That
Not a claim of proof. A walk through six separate, independent kinds of evidence — a grammar book, a Greek convert's own monument, a temple inscription, ancient coins you can see in a museum today, an underwater excavation, and a foreign ambassador's report — each one checkable on its own. Built on the method explained in the last piece.
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Not a claim of proof. A walk through six separate, independent kinds of evidence — a grammar book, a Greek convert's own monument, a temple inscription, ancient coins you can see in a museum today, an underwater excavation, and a foreign ambassador's report — each one checkable on its own. Built on the method explained in the last piece.
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Megasthenes' Herakles
Wikipedia — general reference
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Indica (Megasthenes)
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Hathibada Ghosundi inscriptions
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Heliodorus pillar
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Représentation de Vāsudeva et Saṃkarṣaṇa au IIe siècle avant J.C.
Jean Filliozat / Arts Asiatiques (Persée)
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Further Excavations of the Submerged City of Dwarka
S. R. Rao / Society for Marine Archaeology, National Institute of Oceanography (IGNCA-hosted copy)
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Krishna: A Sourcebook — Panini and Vasudeva
Oxford University Press
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