The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1121 page)

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I–Thou
(in contrast to I–It)
.
A distinction in ways of knowing, emphasized by M.
Buber
: in the personal relationship, one subject, I, encounters or meets another subject, Thou; in connection with things, the subject observes or experiences an object, It. The relation with God may be I–It as a matter of discussion, but God can only be known in the I–Thou relationship.
Itih
sa
(Skt., ‘so indeed it was’). Early Hindu literature, comprising legends, myths, poems, etc., associated with epics and
pur
as
(especially the eighteen Mah
pur
as), which is then later called the fifth
Veda
. More generally the great epics (
Mah
bh
rata
,
R
m
ya
a
) are termed itih
sa.

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