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Puranas (Sanskrit: पुराण, romanized:
Purāṇas, lit. 'Ancients') are a vast
genre of
Indian literature that
include a wide
range of topics,
especially legends...
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Bhagavata Purana is
widely recognized as the best-known and most
influential of the
Puranas, and as a part of
Vedic literature (the
Puranas,
Itihasa epics...
- "The
Purāṇas", in:
Radhakrishnan (CHI, 1962),
volume 2, p. 264. For Brahma, Ganesha, Skanda, and the
Snakes see: Hazra,
Rajendra Chandra, "The
Purāṇas",...
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Vishnu Purana like all
Puranas has a
complicated chronology.
Dimmitt and van
Buitenen state that each of the
Puranas including the
Vishnu Purana is encyclopedic...
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Purna Yoga
Purana, a type of
Hindu Indian literature Mahapurana (Hinduism), the 18
major Puranas Upapuranas,
minor Puranas Purana (cicada), a genus...
- The
Padma Purana (Sanskrit: पद्मपुराण or पाद्मपुराण, Padma-
Purana or Padma-
Purana) is one of the
eighteen Major Puranas, a
genre of
texts in Hinduism...
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Puranas. It is
mentioned in the
Puranas that the
immortal Chiranjivis will ****ist him in
various stages of his life. A
minor text
named Kalki Purana is...
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major Puranas, one
entire chapter dedicated to each. This has been an
important benchmark in
comparison studies, and as
evidence that the
Puranas were...
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Skanda Purana,
Vamana Purana,
Varaha Purana, Vayu
Purana, and
Vishnu Purana and 18 Upa
Puranas (Minor
Puranas), with over 400,000 verses. The
Puranas do not...
- The
Matsya Purana (IAST:
Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the
eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and
among the
oldest and
better preserved in the
Puranic genre...
