most Jaina Puranas can be dated and their authors assigned. There are 18 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over...

with Ganesha. The four texts, two Upa-Puranas and two Maha-Puranas, differ in their focus. The Brahmanda Purana presents Ganesha as Saguna (with attributes...

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...

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...

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....

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 Padma Purana (Sanskrit: पद्मपुराण or पाद्मपुराण, Padma-Purana or Padma-Purana) is one of the eighteen Major Puranas, a genre of texts in Hinduism...

this relative dating because the Mudgala Purana specifically mentions the Ganesha Purana as one of the four Puranas that deal at length with Ganesha. These...

Markandeya Purana (Sanskrit: मार्कण्डेय पुराण; IAST: Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text of Hinduism, and one of the eighteen major Puranas. The text's...

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...

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...

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...

several Kannada and Sanskrit Lingayath puranas inspired by Bhima Kavi's Basava Purana.[citation needed] This Telugu purana was first translated into English...

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...

Purana Qila (lit. 'Old Fort') is one of the oldest forts in Delhi, India. It was built by the second Mughal Emperor Humayun and Surid Sultan Sher Shah...

Bangladesh. It is not one of the 18 Maha-Puranas (great Puranas), and is counted as an Upapurana or secondary Purana. The extant text exists in many versions...

The Brahma Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मपुराण or ब्राह्मपुराण; Brahma-Purana) is one of the eighteen major Puranas collections of Hindu texts in Sanskrit. It...

core of Linga Purana vary among scholars, ranging from the 5th-century CE to the 10th-century. Like all the Puranas, the Linga Purana has a complicated...

Vayu Purana (Sanskrit: वायुपुराण, Vāyu-purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.[citation needed] Vayu Purana is mentioned...

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cycle of time. He is described as a Brahmin warrior in the Puranas. It is mentioned in the Puranas that the immortal Chiranjivis will assist him in various...

The Brahmanda Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्माण्डपुराण, romanized: brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas, a genre of Hindu...

and Purna Yoga Purana, a type of Hindu Indian literature Mahapurana (Hinduism), the 18 major Puranas Upapuranas, minor Puranas Purana (cicada), a genus...

Rocher, Ludo (1986). The Purāṇas. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 3-447-02522-0. Wilson, H.H. (1864). Puranas. Read Books. ISBN 1-84664-664-2...

centuries. The Kurma Purana, like all Puranas, has a complicated chronology. Dimmitt and van Buitenen state that each of the Puranas is encyclopedic in...

Indian Literature (vol. II, The Puranas), Part 1 ('Puranic Literature'), Section 2.2.2 ('Consequences: Dating the Puranas') In part 2 of the same work –...

universe, the god acts to begin the process. Like other Puranas, the cosmogenesis in Garuda Purana weaves the Samkhya theory of two realities—the Purusha...

Bagha Purana or Bhagha Purana is a city and a Municipal Council in Moga district in the state of Punjab, India. Bagha Purana lies on the main road connecting...

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...

प्रयत्नेन तदेव विबुधोत्तमैः ॥ In fact, this Purana is the Essence of all the Puranas. How can the other Puranas be compared with this, wherein is established...