itihasa
इतिहास itihāsa'Thus it was': the category of the great epics, the Ramayana and Mahabharata, remembered as history rather than invented tale.
Where this term appears
- What is the Mahabharata? Scriptures
It reads Vyasa as a rishi (a seer) who composed what he had also caused and witnessed, which is part of what itihasa means.
- What is the Ramayana? Scriptures
The tradition classes the Ramayana , along with the Mahabharata , as itihasa , a word often unpacked as "so indeed it was." For many devotees the events are simply history, and Rama a king who lived and ruled.
- Shruti and Smriti: what counts as Hindu scripture? Scriptures
Smriti is where most of the texts a casual reader thinks of as "Hindu scripture" actually live. The Itihasas , the great epics, are smriti.
- Of Old Treatise
…spoken of together that the tradition has a single compound for them, itihasa-purana , the histories-and-ancient-tales, which the Chandogya Upanishad had already called a fifth Veda.
- The Chandogya Upanishad: that you are Treatise
… of learning in ancient literature: the four Vedas, "as the fifth the Itihasa-purana ," grammar, ritual, mathematics, the science of portents, logic, ethics, etymology, the sciences of demons and weapons and st…
- The People's Veda Treatise
This is the real sense in which the itihasa-purana is called a fifth Veda.
- The Story That Would Not Stay Still Treatise
This is where the volume that began with the word itihasa , thus it was, comes to rest.
- Thus It Was Treatise
It has its own word. Itihasa.