The name Rama appears for the first time in written form as a name phrase ‘Rāmadote’ in an inscription of the early Mauryan period in the Taxila region. The Ṛgvēda has no mention of Rama. Due to the lack of evidence, the historians have taken the view that the Story of Rama is a piece of fiction and even if it had some historical basis it must be an insignificant political event that could have occurred in the Gogra basin and later exaggerated by the poets.
