history is like memory

it is manipulated, it morphs to fit in with your current acceptable version of reality.

Mahabharata, Ramayana and the purana stories, were they too modified?   Sita's agni pareeksha, did it happen or was it added by later more suspiscious society, the society became more intolerant they couldnot bear Ram living with Sita after abduction even after agni pareeksha so they added the rumours and sent her away to the forest? or was it all one cohessive story? 

Radha and Krishna story has more varied interpretations. They had a deep love between them, They are depicted romantically in many places. But Radha was married, How do people accept this? Many people just make exceptions for stories but some people cant. Sometimes this is made acceptable to current sensibilities by saying Radha was much older and Krishna was a child and their love was like mother and son. Some say this love is like the love between the atma and  paramatma, that it was not romantic. 

Draupati, She married 5 men. Even today the custom of one woman marrying all brothers is present in Himalayan regions, To control the population as there is limited land.  Was she just married as per this custom and later history changed the story to say Kunti ordered the brothers to share the wife so she had to do it, to make it more acceptable to later sensibilities? 

My brain scared me one morning trying to fit in the sloped bedroom roof of my brothers house. my brain somehow believed that the room had a flat roof, to accomodate that reality, it showed me that the wall was slanting steeply towards me! I woke up with a start after that illusion! :)