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The Ramayana and the Mahabharata
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A classic Indian text, written down in Sanskrit between 400 B.C.-100 A.D., but as with many of our ancient texts, no doubt based on much older stories. Similarities in the stories have been noted in several more recent texts, including the Welsh Mabionogion, probably dated about 1000 AD.
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Ancient Writers and the Origins of Writing
Writing is about 5,000 years old, as far as we can tell. These are links to those early texts, both religious and secular, now available on line.
From Sacred Texts, translated from the Sanskrit by R. Dutt in 1899.
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The Mahabharata
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