- most
Jaina Puranas can be
dated and
their authors ****igned.
There are 18
Mukhya Puranas (Major
Puranas) and 18 Upa
Puranas (Minor
Puranas), with over...
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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...
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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...
- Bhāgavata, and Garuḍa
Puranas, see: Winternitz,
volume 1, pp. 523–524.
Rocher 1986, pp. 78, 153–154. Mathett, Freda, "The
Purāṇas" in
Flood (2003), p....
- 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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major Puranas, one
entire chapter dedicated to each. This has been an
important benchmark in
comparison studies, and as
evidence that the
Puranas were...
- 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...
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Markandeya Purana (Sanskrit: मार्कण्डेय पुराण; IAST: Mārkaṇḍeya
Purāṇa) is a
Sanskrit text of Hinduism, and one of the
eighteen major Puranas. The text's...
- iti ha āsa इति ह आस,
which means "so
indeed it was".
Puranas, /pʊˈrɑːnə/; Sanskrit: पुराण,
purāṇa literally means "ancient, old."
Itihasa refers to the...
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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...
