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Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 18:32, 14 July 2023: 1,002 × 1,416, 4 pages (963 KB): TrangaBellam: Uploaded a work by Anon. from "The Manuscript of the Maharashtra Purana" in The Mahārāshṭa Purāṇa: An Eighteenth-Century Bengali Historical Text, translated by Edward C. Dimock and Pratul Chandra Gupta, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1965, pp. XI-XIV. with ...
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.
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.
The term Purana appears in the Vedic texts. For example, Atharva Veda mentions Purana (in the singular) in XI.7.24 and XV.6.10-11: [18] "The Rig and Sama verses, the Chandas, the Purana along with the Yajur formulae, all sprang from the remainder of the sacrificial food, (as also) the gods that resort to heaven.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... , the 18 great Puranas of Hinduism, especially the Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana;
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... Pages in category "Puranas" The following 64 pages are in this category, out of 64 total.
The Puranas (Sanskrit पुराण, purāṇá "ancient", since they focus on ancient history of the universe) are part of Hindu Smriti; these religious scriptures discuss varied topics like devotion to God in his various aspects, traditional sciences like Ayurveda, Jyotish, cosmology, concepts like dharma, karma, reincarnation and many others.
The Sanskrit text Garuda Purana is one of 18 Mahapuranas in Hinduism. [1] The Garuda Purana was likely composed in the first millennium CE, with significant expansions and revisions occurring over several centuries. Scholars estimate that the earliest core might date back to between the 4th and 11th centuries CE, with substantial additions and ...