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- The ithas puran tradition of Indian history emerged in the postmodern period and flourished in the early Christian centuries from 1 to 5th Century ad.
- The ithas puran literature serves as a repository of cultural memory by blending the popular legends, folklores, and myths of the common people with the elite oral tradition.
- Foreign literary sources on ancient India are broadly divided into the gco Roman travelers, the Chinese travelers, and the Arab travelers.
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morning everyone hope I'm a in our previous lecture we had talked about the religious sources of and uh towards the end we had discussed about two specific types of SM literature that is Quran literature and IAS literature
it is a new type of devotional literature which emerged from the post Moran period onwards up to the GTA period it consists of Genies of gods and goddesses and conflicts the dynastic histories of of contemporary dynasties with those genical records those Divine Genies the theas tradition on the other
hand refers to the two great epics of India that is the Mahabharat and ramayan now it is the combination of these two types of literature is considered to be the ancient Indian historical tradition that is the
ithas Quan tradition right that that is what we need to talk about nowan tradition and what are its important features and how did it originate take down a question question answer
what is the ithas Quan tradition of Indian history question mark how did
it originate and what are its pies question mark 200 words
okay question portions first of all what is theas pan tradition how did it originate Origins and what are its features these are the that we need to address we can begin by writing the ithas Quran
tradition of Indian history is the early historical tradition of here stop it
is comprised of the two major epics that is Mahabharat and
Raman and the rans IT emerged in the post mod
period and flourished in the early Christian centuries when we say early Christian centuries we mean 1 to 5th Century ad okay
it emerged in the postmodern period and flourished in the early Christian Sy next subheading though origin its origin may be attributed
to the following factors the following factors
Point first of all there already existed an oral Trad tradtion the Indian civilization of passing on knowledge and legends okay so it was a continuation of that oral tradition Vic literature for example had
been transmitted for thousands of years through this oral tradition right and once viic literature was compiled New Legends were inserted into they finally matured in the form of theas Quran write down it was a continuation it was a continuation huh it was a
continuation of the oral tradition that already existed that already existed in India hello hello Nores I'm sorry uh we had to begin the class a little late today because of some technical issues I hope I'm
audible AR good morning uh right so I hope you haven't missed anything okay Miss please wait till the end of the class I'll be sending you a snapshot of whatever I any doubts you can ask all
right that that already existed in India full stop the stories the stories Legends and Genies passed down through this oral tradition passed down through this oral
tradition were written down were written down in the form of these epics and qurans form of these ethics and purans
second the IAS puran literature also serves as a repository of cultural memory also serves as a repository of cultural
memory distinction oral tradition this refers to theic literature and Royal unies by
nature is this or oral tradition a popular tradition or an elite tradition Elite tradition Ed by the pr El class and the ruling class on the other hand there exist the
people's own Legends and myths they have their own gods and goddesses and their own figures that they rever through the history to the Past right so cultural memory be tradition this popular tradition also blended with this Elite tradition and found Its Reflection In theas Quan tradition
IAS puran literature served as the repository of cultural M that is the popular Legends folklor and myths of the
Common People popular Legends folklores and myths of the Common People blended with the elite oral tradition blended with the elite oral
tradition of the Common People blended with the elite oral tradition okay so first was oral tradition second was cultural memory number three right the ithas Quan tradition Quan
tradition emerged through the integ ation of Mythology and history integration of Mythology and
history okay in fact this literature has been written in such a manner that it it is often almost impossible to distinguish which facts are historical which facts are mythical write down it presents it presents historical
events narratives and figures within a mythological framework in a mythological framework and why is it done like this why not pure history because purpose of this
literature was not history writing it was to impart certain values give some teachings to be people who were receiving this or target audience okay write down this blending of myth and history this blending of myth and history helped convey helped