Puranetihasa Dept. was established on 1971 by famous Scholar of Veda- Agama- Purana-Dharmasastra Pt.Somanatha Dash.In July 1980 other two famous scholar of Puranetihasa Dr Ramteerth Mishra and FakirMohan Panda join the Department. In 1993 Dr Minati Rath and in 2009 Dr Makhlesh Kumar both schlor Join the the dept. In 2011 Dr. R. M. Pratihari TGT of School dept join as Asst. Prof. in P.I dept.after she got promotion. In 2012 Dr K.C.Kabi got appointment as guest faculty now this dept is going on consisting of four facultiesShastri and Acharya classes has been running consisting of 101students in both the degree (U.G& P.G).This dept has constituted a Samitee named as Vyasa Peetha Samitee to promote Scriptures like Ramayanam, Mahabharatam, Bhagawatam, Gita, and Other Puranas. PI dept publishes huge amount of articles, research papers, books,& journals.We organizes more than five seminars vidwat Sabhas RadioTalks each year to popularizes scriptures among common man, students and intellectuals.