According Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterjee,..Ramayana was not the historical
fact of any age; it is from beginning to end a fiction. Valmiki borrowing
from the story of Dashratha Jataka of the Buddhist literature to compose this
epic.For Ref.: Suniti Kumar Chatterjee, " Rama and his Birthplace",
Ananda Bazaar Patrika, Calcutta, Jan 17, 1976. English translation by Noorul
Islam Khan is included in the book Babri Masjid _ Ram Janambhoomi Controversy,
ed. Asghar Ali Engineer, 1990). Prof. Chatterji goes on to state that "Valmiki
in the texture of the basic story had recourse to wide imagination as he liked.
he shifted the place of occurence from Benarasi to Ayodhya....King Dashratha
was the king of Banarasi and not of Ayodhya as claimed in Ramayana." Prof.
Chatterji goes on to write :"No scholar of Indian history thinks that Rama,
the hero of Ramayana was a historical person who can be relegated to particular
period of time" ref: P.S. Sridhara Murthy: Rama-Ramayana and Babar, 1988, pp. 14
Further
Among the acquisitions of IGNCA is a monumental collection belonging to Prof. Suniti Kumar Chajjterjee (1890-1977). A multi-disciplinary scholar, polymath, philologist and connoisseur of art, he was the Professor of Linguistics and Languages at the University of Calcutta for thirty years. He was a confluence of world culture, being well versed in Sanskrit, Greek, Gothic, Avesta, Arabic, Bengali and Hindi. He was written a number of scholarly books and papers on a wi
