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A fusion of the three traditions must have taken place during five centuries 1500-1000 B.C. while Indian sub-continent entered the Iron Age and the period of second urbanisation. Though of uncertain dates, the Indian epics described Rāma’s cultural contacts with the eastern and southern civilizations and Kṛṣṇa establishing some cultural hegemony across the sub-continent prior to submergence of the Dwarka township, an event which has been recently attested through marine archaeological recovery of the artefacts and their thermoluminescence dating.