- or "five signs" of a Purana.
These are
called the
Pancha Lakshana (
pañcalakṣaṇa), and are
topics covered by a Purana: Sarga:
cosmogony or the creation...
- than any
other major Purana, the
Vishnu Purana presents its
contents in
Pancalaksana format –
Sarga (cosmogony),
Pratisarga (cosmology),
Vamsa (genealogy...
- Krishna.
Dwarka The bulk of the text is
derived from two traditions, the
pañcalakṣaṇa tradition, that is, the five
marks of the
Purana corpus one of which...
- Mahapurana,
which are
known as the five characteristics, or
Pancha Lakshana (
pañcalakṣaṇa).
Trivedi argues that
there is no
compelling reason to
downgrade it to...
- text has four idiosyncrasies,
states Bailey, in that it
contains no
pancalaksana content,
minimal didactic presentation of dharmashastra, the
myths are...
