The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s3.16

c7.s3.16

In recent *Purāṇa*-scholarship Rāma and his ancestors are being treated as no mythological figures, and it is said that his date can be ascertained with accuracy from Purāṇic information. Rāma is taken to have flourished about 2124 B.C. He was an exile for fourteen years, returned to Ayodhyā with Sītā when he was forty-two, ruled for eleven years and died when he was only fifty-three. He was a great warrior, but he was a greater ruler and the brief eleven years of his reign were marked by constant progress.