Itihasa | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-11

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00:01:09 1 Brahmanical Tradition
00:01:18 1.1 Cosmogony and the Antediluvian history
00:02:57 1.2 The Satya Yuga
00:10:33 1.3 The Treta Yuga
00:13:02 1.4 The Dvapara Yuga
00:17:20 1.5 The Kali Yuga
00:19:42 1.6 Conclusion
00:19:59 2 Jaina Tradition
00:21:15 2.1 Sixty-three Salaka Purusas
00:21:25 3 Buddhist Tradition
00:23:39 4 iItihasa/i as a source of actual history
00:25:30 5 Influence on the Classical Indian Poetry
00:26:03 6 See also



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Itihasa, meaning history in Sanskrit, consists of the Mahabharata and the Ramayana (sometimes the Puranas too, are included). The Mahabharata includes the story of the Kurukshetra War and also preserves the traditions of the Lunar dynasty in the form of embedded tales. The Puranas narrate the universal history as perceived by the Hindus – cosmogony, myth, legend and history. The Ramayana contains the story of Rama and incidentally relates the legends of the Solar dynasty. A story is considered to be 'Itihasa' only when the writer of the story has himself witnessed the story. Dvaipayana Veda Vyas, who wrote the Mahabharata, is himself a character in the story. Similarly, Ratnakkardah Valmiki, who wrote the Ramayana, was also a character in the story. The classical Indian poets usually derive the story of their poetry and drama from the Itihasas. In our time, these traditions have been most carefully reconstructed from the available texts and arranged in chronological order by F. E. Pargiter in his compendium Ancient Indian Historical Tradition.