I have been posting on the historicity of Lord Rama and am planning to write on the Birth date od Lord Krishna.
While I was 'Story telling' my grand son, 4, he asked me whether Ravana was real or a story.
That struck me.
I have been going after facts on Lord Rama, the route taken by Him, His Birth Date and never for a moment it struck me to go after Ravana.
If Lord Rama is real, so should Ravana Be, as the whole Ramayana minus Ravana is Zero!
I did some checks and this Post.
A Study by Tharaka Devinda Gunasekera, a Sri Lankan( what better source could there be!) attempts to prove Ravana was real.
The author has sifted Facts from Myths and has done a good interpretation.
His proof consists of Three facts.
