Mahabharata
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The Mahābhārata is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Ramayana. Both are considered smriti and itihasa texts.
Manuscript illustration of the Battle of Kurukshetra
Krishna and Arjuna at Kurukshetra, 18th–19th-century painting
Vyasa narrating the Mahābhārata to Ganesha from a 17th century Mewar manuscript.
Sauti recites the slokas of the Mahabharata.
Ramayana
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The Ramayana, also known as the Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a Hindu smriti mythological epic poem from ancient India. It is one of the two important epics of Hinduism
Mahabharata
…IAST: Mahābhāratam, pronounced , 'Great Bharata') is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India revered in Hinduism, the other being the Ramayana. Both are considered smriti and itihasa texts. The Mahabharatha narrates the events before, during, and after the Kurukshetra War, a war of succession…
Rama's journey during exile (with wife, Sita and brother, Lakshmana), forms central narrative of Ramayana
An artist's impression of sage Valmiki composing the Ramayana
The marriage of the four sons of Dasharatha to the four daughters of Siradhvaja Janaka and Kushadhvaja. Rama and Sita, Lakshmana and Urmila, Bharata and Mandavi and Shatrughna with Shrutakirti. Folio from the Shnagri Ramayana, early 18th-century. National Museum, New Delhi
Rama leaving for fourteen years of exile from Ayodhya