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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 ]
The Guru Gita (lit. ' Song of the Guru ') is a Hindu scripture that is said to have been authored by the sage Vyasa.The verses of this scripture may also be chanted. The text is part of the larger Skanda Purana.
The Skanda Purana is the largest Purana with 81,000 verses, ... and Wilson's translation, ... Agni Purana (in English), Volume 2, MN Dutt ...
The second part, composed in the later centuries and narrated as a conversation between Shiva and his son Skanda, contains stories about various social groups of the Brahmins. [12] In this part, Shiva tells his son Skanda that ancient sages established the ten divisions of Brahmins (Pancha Gauda and Pancha Dravida). He describes the different ...
The Skanda Purana features two origin legends for the conch. The Panchajanya is mentioned to be among the various substances and beings that emerged during the Samudra Manthana: [8] Then came out the Śārṅga bow, the presiding deity of all weapons. Then emerged Pāñcajanya, the conch, the supreme deity of all musical instruments.
The puja is described in the Skanda Purana, [1] a medieval era Sanskrit text. [2] [3] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". [4]
A section embedded in Skanda Purana is known as Agastya Samhita, and sometimes called the Sankara Samhita. [4] It was probably composed in late medieval era, but before the 12th-century. [5] It exists in many versions, and is structured as a dialogue between Skanda and Agastya.
English: This is a page from the Skanda Purana manuscript. It is a medieval era tour guide of pilgrimage sites along the Ganges River. Language: Sanskrit Script: Devenagari This manuscript was acquired in the 19th-century, and was produced in or before the acquisition.