History or Myth? Was: Black Draupadi?

[B. Reusch]

At 21:38 +0100 8/22/97, Alf Hiltebeitel wrote:
>Mixing these questions up can only reiterate silliness, of
>which scholars have produced too much already for over a century. Alf
>Hiltebeitel

Could you, perhaps, elaborate on that?
How about providing criteria for defining any narrative as "history" and/or
"myth"?
Thanks.

Beatrice Reusch
University of California, Berkeley