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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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title some of the
books same and
others differently. The
Shiva Purana, like
other Puranas in
Hindu literature, was
likely a
living text,
which was routinely...
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Brahmavaivarta Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मवैवर्त पुराण;
Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa) is a
voluminous Sanskrit text and one of the
major Puranas (Maha-
purana) of Hinduism...
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Brahma Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मपुराण or ब्राह्मपुराण; Brahma-
Purana) is one of the
eighteen major Puranas collections of
Hindu texts in Sanskrit. It...
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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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Padma Purana (Sanskrit: पद्मपुराण or पाद्मपुराण, Padma-
Purana or Padma-
Purana) is one of the
eighteen Major Puranas, a
genre of
texts in Hinduism...
- The Agni
Purana, (Sanskrit: अग्नि पुराण, Agni
Purāṇa) is a
Sanskrit text and one of the
eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism. The text is
variously classified...
