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Was Krishna a Real Person? Here Is How Historians Actually Try to Answer That. Six Kinds of Evidence, and What They Can and Cannot Show

Not a claim of proof. A walk through six separate kinds of evidence, each checkable on its own: a grammar book, ancient coins of a Greek king, a Greek ambassador's own pillar, a stone enclosure for worship recorded in two inscriptions, an underwater excavation, and a foreign ambassador's report. I grade three claims and tell you which is which: that the tradition has very deep historical roots is true, that a specific man is proven to the year is unsupported, and that the Dwaraka ruins and the sky date him is contested. Built on the method from the previous file.