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  2. Mahapurana (Jainism) - Wikipedia

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    Mahapurana (महापुराण) or Trishashthilkshana Mahapurana is a major Jain text [1] composed largely by Acharya Jinasena during the rule of Rashtrakuta ruler Amoghavarsha and completed by his pupil Gunabhadra in the 9th century CE.

  3. Shiva Purana - Wikipedia

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    The date and authors of Shiva Purana are unknown. No authentic data is available. Scholars such as Klostermaier as well as Hazra estimate that the oldest chapters in the surviving manuscript were likely composed around the 10- to 11th-centuries CE, which has not stood the test of carbon dating technology hence on that part we must rely on the text itself which tells when it was composed.

  4. Ugrashravas - Wikipedia

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    Ugrashravas Sauti (Sanskrit: उग्रश्रवस् सौती, also Ugraśravas, Sauti, Sūta, Śri Sūta, Suta Gosvāmī) is a character in Hindu literature, featured as the narrator of the Mahābhārata [1] and several Puranas including the Shiva Purana, [2] Bhagavata Purana, [3] [4] Harivamsa, [5] Brahmavaivarta Purana, and Padma Purana, [6] with the narrations typically taking ...

  5. Shiva - Wikipedia

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    The Linga Purana states, "Shiva is signless, without color, taste, smell, that is beyond word or touch, without quality, motionless and changeless". [311] The source of the universe is the signless, and all of the universe is the manifested Linga, a union of unchanging Principles and the ever changing nature. [ 311 ]

  6. Mahapurana - Wikipedia

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    Read; Edit; View history ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Mahapurana, the 18 great Puranas of Hinduism, especially the Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu ...

  7. Mahavishnu - Wikipedia

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    Mahavishnu (Sanskrit: महाविष्णु, romanized: Mahāviṣṇu, lit. 'Great Vishnu') is an aspect of Vishnu, the principal deity in Vaishnavism.In his capacity as Mahavishnu, the deity is known as the Supreme Purusha, the absolute protector and sustainer of the universe, the one who is beyond human comprehension, and all attributes.

  8. Bhavishya Purana - Wikipedia

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    The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (Volume 1: Introduction, Book I). Read Country Books (reprinted in 2006). ISBN 1-84664-664-2. Winternitz, Maurice (1922). History of Indian Literature Vol 1 (Original in German, translated into English by VS Sarma, 1981). New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (Reprint 2010). ISBN 978-8120802643.

  9. Skanda Purana - Wikipedia

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    The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mukhyapurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. [1] The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Shaivite literature, [ 2 ] titled after Skanda , a son of Shiva and Parvati (who is also known as Murugan in Tamil literature). [ 3 ]