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Itihasa
Itihasa (Sanskrit: ''Itihāsa'', "historical event"; from ''iti'', ''ha'' and ''āsa'', lit. "so indeed it was") as defined by Amarakosha (I.6.4) refers to ''purvavritta'', i.e. events of the past. In the Vedic age, those portions of the Brahmanas which narrated events of bygone days were known as ''itihasa'' and had some ritualistic importance. The recitation of the ''itihasa-purana'' in the ''pariplava'' nights was a part of the Asvamedha ritual.〔http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/sbe01/sbe01062.htm〕 Later, the connotation of the term widened to cover all such narratives which related to past events – partly facts and partly myths.
==Sources of ''Itihasa''==
Itihasa, as it has come down to us, 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. 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''.〔http://archive.org/details/cu31924024065504〕
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