![]() Another early mention of the term 'Itihas-purana' is found in the (7.1.2), translated by as 'the corpus of histories and ancient tales as the fifth Veda'. Further, despite the mention of the term Purana or Puranas in the Vedic texts, there is uncertainty about the contents of them until the composition of the oldest Dharmashastra and, that mention Puranas resembling with the extant Puranas. Moreover, it is not unlikely that, where the singular ' Puranam' was employed in the texts, a class of works was meant. Therefore, states Kane, that in the later Vedic period at least, the Puranas referred to three or more texts, and that they were studied and recited In numerous passages the Mahabharata mentions ' Purana' in both singular and plural forms. The late Vedic text Taittiriya Aranyaka (II.10) uses the term in the plural.
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