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The Brahmanda Purana manuscripts are encyclopedic in their coverage, covering topics such as Cosmogony, Sanskara (Rite Of Passage), Genealogy, chapters on ethics and duties , Yoga, geography, rivers, good government, administration, diplomacy, trade, festivals, a travel guide to places such as Kashmir, Cuttack, Kanchipuram, and other topics.
The Brahma Purana dedicates a majority of its chapters to describing the geography, temples and scenes around the Godavari river and of Odisha. [6]The text is notable for dedicating over 60% of its chapters on description of geography and holy sites of Godavari River Region, as well as places in and around modern Odisha, and tributaries of Chambal River in Rajasthan.
The Brihaddharma Purana (Sanskrit: बृहद्धर्म पुराण, Bṛhaddharma Purāņa) is a Hindu religious text, which classified itself (I.25.26) as the last of the 18 Upapuranas. The extant text comprises three khaņḑas (parts): pūrvakhaņḑa, madhyakhaņḑa and uttarakhaņḑa.
It published a number of books written, compiled or translated by Jwala Prasad Mishra (1861-1916 CE), the head pandit at Muradabad Kameshwar Sanskrit pathshala during the early 1900s that include Panchatantra (1910), Vajasaneyi Sri Sukla Yajuevedasamhita (1912), Bihari Satsai, Dayananda-Timira-Bhaskara (1913), Jati Bhaskar (published in 1926 ...
According to Richard L. Thompson, the Bhagavata Purana presents a geocentric model of our Brahmanda (cosmic egg or universe), where our Bhu-mandala disk, equal in diameter to our Brahmanda, has a diameter of 500 million yojanas (trad. 8 miles each), which equals around 4 billion miles or more, a size far too small for the universe of stars and ...
The term brahmavidya is a compound derived from the Sanskrit terms brahman and vidya.. Brahman is the Ultimate Reality in Hinduism.. The word vidyā means "knowledge," [4] and is derived from the Sanskrit verbal root -vid- ("to know"), also seen in the word Veda.
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This story, state Bonnefoy and Doniger, appears in Vayu Purana's chapter 1.55, Brahmanda Purana's chapter 1.26, Shiva Purana's Rudra Samhita's Sristi Khanda's chapter 15, Skanda Purana's chapters 1.3, 1.16, 3.1, and other Puranas. [89] The texts are in Sanskrit as well as regional languages, [4] [5] and almost entirely in narrative metric ...