The hero stories of the Indian epics and traditions: Rama's exile and the war with Ravana, Krishna's childhood in Vrindavan, the Kurukshetra War of the Mahabharata and Bahubali and Bharata of the Jain tradition. A myth belongs here when its cited article describes a heroic episode of an Indian epic or sacred history. It excludes the hero stories of other regions. Examples in the atlas include Rama's Exile and the War With Ravana.
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Bahubali (Wikipedia)
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Bahubali (IAST: Bāhubalī, lit. 'one with strong arms') was the son of Rishabhanatha (the first tirthankara of Jainism) and the brother of the chakravartin Bharata.
Wikipedia, Ramayana (source)
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The Ramayana (; Sanskrit: रामायणम्, romanized: Rāmāyaṇam), also known as the Valmiki Ramayana, as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a Hindu smriti epic poem (also described as a Sanskrit epic) from ancient India. It is one of the two important epics of Hinduism known as the Itihasas, the other being the Mahabharata, narratives of past events (purāvṛtta), interspersed with teachings on the goals of human life.
Kurukshetra War (Wikipedia)
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The Kurukshetra War (Sanskrit: कुरुक्षेत्रयुद्ध), also called the Mahabharata War, is a war described in the Hindu epic poem Mahabharata, arising from a dynastic struggle between two groups of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas, for the throne of Hastinapura.
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