The net is filled with the British version.
In that we are weaklings, who won't kill anything and will burn our women. BS!!
We are Dronwar Brahmins from Dronacharya..even the princes feared us. The Rajputs who would descend from the Kuru learnt at our feet. The extant manuscripts are present in Mithila..in archives in Patana Uni and Bengal Uni of all places (that last bit boggles me also).
We are also of the line of Kashi Naresh through Gautama Maharishi (one of the saptrishis). We were meant to be Virabhadra in battle..Rudra's off-springs. You will have to contact the professors who research these archives..my aunt is among them and went through them as a senior professor of Sanskrit.
Brother..we've lost Vajramusthi..very little of it remains now..instead its bastardized forms persist in Myanmar in the form of Lethwei and in Siam in the form of Muay Boron...but they are incomplete for they only adapted the striking component of the Mushthi but not the weapons and grappling. First the Mughals banned it and we to our eternal shame complied and then finally the British.
Can you imagine, Magadh- before Ashoka decided to give up the sword- turned Alexander away and his satrap in Asia Seleucus I Nicator bent the knee to us...we were the bannermen of Magadh and Kuru..and then we became pacifist zameendars..zameendar kis bhasha ki shabdawali me paya jaata hai, magdhi..sanskrit? NO! it was a nice Mughal invention and then a British tool. You cannot be a bhudev- that's the term "bhu-dev"- lord of the land if you cannot protect its people and bring them riches.
Atyant hi lambi katha hai bhai.