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Hindu mythology is the body of myths[a] attributed to, and espoused by, the adherents of the Hindu religion, found in Hindu texts such as the Vedas,[1] the itihasa (the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana,[2]) the Puranas,[3] and mythological stories specific to a particular ethnolinguistic group like the Tamil Periya Puranam and Divya Prabandham, and the Mangal Kavya of Bengal. Hindu myths are also found in widely translated popular texts such as the fables of the Panchatantra and the Hitopadesha, as well as in Southeast Asian texts.[4][5]
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- ^ Macdonell 1978, p. 1–9.
- ^ Washburn Hopkins 1986, pp. 1–3.
- ^ Bonnefoy 1993, p. 90–101.
- ^ Olivelle 1999, p. xii–xiii.
- ^ Waldau & Patton 2009, p. 186, 680.