Both sagas, BTW, report on the same events with the same time line and yet manage to relay the entirity of the belief system in totally different ways.
The KEY PLAYER is a person called Krishna. Most of his key ancestors were born of births precipitated by a god usually thought of as "the Sun god". One earlier ancestor was born of a river nymph we know in the West as a Nixie. He was a survivor of a mother who was into killing her infants shortly after they were born (death of the innocents). Krishna's own birth was at the end of a number of births of babies to his mother and father the King and Queen who were being held captive by an evil usurper. Those babies were also murdered (death of the innocents). On the other hand, Krishna's mother's pregnancy was transferred by the gods to another woman thereby getting him out of the way of the evil usurper and also creating a "virgin birth" situation. He also had a sister born but the evil usurper wasn't killing girls. She goes on to be Krishna's closest companion in life and has powers to protect Krishna (she has what we'd call Angelic powers).
After Krishna is born the cell locks break open and his mother and father are freed. The father takes Krishna in a great storm across the river to another place where he'll be safe (this has overtones of the flight to Egypt).
After a great number of adventures and travails Krishna ends up as King of the City of Dwarka and rules wisely for many years. During that period he and others engage in the War between The Truth and Lies ~ and win, but at the expense, again, of their first born sons! (we've got that one several times in the Bible and many have tried to figure out if this is a meme left over from oral tradition days or has some other meaning).
Well, that's the basic story of that particular messiah. Now, about Dwarka ~ that, too, was thought to be a literary vehicle to advance the story about the moral code and the legitimacy of Indian traditions. Then they found Dwarka offshore, in ruins.
If Jesus had grown up in Alexandria, Egypt, and taught in the synagogues, and done all of his works in that great city spending most of his time in the "downtown area" that place, too, would have dropped under the waves in an earthquake many centuries ago. Cleopatra's palace, etc, was found just a few years ago ~ real as could be!
The Hindus are all having chills running up and down their spines. They are leaping and jumping. Finding Dwarka is the rough equivalent of finding the Ark of the covenant because Dwarka is elemental to their core belief ~ to wit: they were visited by a Messiah.
And you thought Krishna was all about chanting and selling roses at the airport ~ that's a different religion guys ~ just the first Hindu sect invented in America.
Hey — Krishna isn’t in the Ramayana, is he? He’s an avatar of Vishnu — as is Rama.