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The Itihasa-Purana, the Epic-Puranic narratives of the Sanskrit Epics (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) [1] and the Puranas, [1] contain royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty which are regarded by Indian traditions as historic events, and used in the Epic-Puranic chronology to establish a traditional timeline of Indian history.
[1] [2] Each tradition has a long list of Hindu texts, with subgenre based on syncretization of ideas from Samkhya, Nyaya, Yoga, Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy. [3] [4] [5] Of these some called Sruti are broadly considered as core scriptures of Hinduism, but beyond the Sruti, the list of scriptures vary by the scholar. [6]
These are said to be eighteen in number, divided into three groups of six, though they are not always counted in the same way. The list of Mahapuranas is mentioned in the Vishnu Purana, part 3, chapter 6, verses 21–24. [31] The number of verses in each Mahapurana is mentioned in the Bhagavata Purana, part 12, chapter 13, verses 4–9. [32]
The Mahabharata, Ramayana and the Puranas contain genealogies of kings, [12] which are used for the traditional chronology of India's ancient history. Ludo Rocher in his book "The Puranas" (1986) provides a long list of chronological calculations based on Puranic lists with a warning that they are "often highly imaginative". [13]
In Hinduism, Itihasa-Purana, also called the fifth Veda, [1] [2] [3] refers to the traditional accounts of cosmogeny, myths, royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty, and legendary past events, [web 1] as narrated in the Itihasa (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) [1] and the Puranas. [1]
800-400 BCE [2] Vedanta: Later commentary on the Vedas, Brahmanas and Upanishads. Itihasa: Ramayana and Mahabharata are known as the itihasas (‘thus it happened’). present form c.800 BCE for Mahabharata and c.300 BCE for Ramayana Pāli Canon: Essential collections of teachings of Shakyamuni Buddha, as written by his followers, three ...
In modern times, most ancient texts have been translated into other Indian languages and some in non-Indian languages. [1] Prior to the start of the common era, the Hindu texts were composed orally, then memorized and transmitted orally, from one generation to the next, for more than a millennium before they were written down into manuscripts.
The Upanishads consist of ten, twelve or thirteen major texts, with a total of 108 texts [2] (some scholars list ten as principal – the Mukhya Upanishads, while most consider twelve or thirteen as principal, most important Upanishads [3] [4] [5]).