A: The word ithihasa is split as ‘ithiha aasa’, which means that in the days gone by, “It all happened thus”. In fact, it is a record of historic facts. While
Sri Ramayana is a historic narrative of the life of Sri Rama, the Mahabharatha is a narrative of the lives of the pandavas (the five sons of king Pandu) and
the kauravas (the sons of king Dritharashtra). The Mahabharatha is a historic record of how the noble pandavas were tortured by the wicked kauravas and how Lord Krishna, the incarnation of the Supreme Lord rescued and protected the pandavas.
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