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  2. Purana Qila - Wikipedia

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    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 Suri . [ 1 ]

  3. Epic-Puranic royal genealogies - Wikipedia

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    The Itihasa-Purana, the Epic-Puranic narratives of the Sanskrit Epics (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) [1] and the Puranas, [1] contain royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty which are regarded by Indian traditions as historic events, and used in the Epic-Puranic chronology to establish a traditional timeline of Indian history.

  4. Puranas - Wikipedia

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    "Future Purana") is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit.The title Bhavishya means "future" and implies it is a work that contains prophecies regarding the future, however, the "prophecy" parts of the extant manuscripts are a modern era addition and hence not an integral part of the Bhavishya ...

  5. Epic-Puranic chronology - Wikipedia

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    The Bhagavata Purana [3.11.18-20] (c. 500-1000 CE) gives a matching description of the yuga lengths in divine years. The Kali Yuga is the present yuga. According to Puranic sources, Krishna's departure marks the end of Dvapara Yuga and the start of Kali Yuga, [note 2] which is dated to 17/18 February 3102 BCE, [17] [18] twenty years after the ...

  6. Category:Puranas - Wikipedia

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  7. Brahma - Wikipedia

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    Brahma, states this Purana, emerges at the moment when time and universe are born, inside a lotus rooted in the navel of Vishnu, along with Shiva, who emerged inside a fire rooted in the forehead of the god Vishnu. This Purana states that both Brahma and Shiva are drowsy, err, are temporarily incompetent as they put together the universe. [53]

  8. Padma Purana - Wikipedia

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    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. It is an encyclopedic text, named after the lotus in which creator god Brahma appeared, and includes large sections dedicated to Vishnu , as well as ...

  9. Melbourne gangland killings - Wikipedia

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    The Purana Task Force was established by Victoria Chief Commissioner of Police Christine Nixon in 2003 to investigate the Melbourne gangland killings and major drug syndicates. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The taskforce enjoyed success in investigating and halting the killings, despite initially being pushed for staff.