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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.
[47] [49] [50] The content is diverse across the Puranas, and each Purana has survived in numerous manuscripts which are themselves voluminous and comprehensive. The Hindu Puranas are anonymous texts and likely the work of many authors over the centuries; in contrast, most Jaina Puranas can be dated and their authors assigned. [48]
The Vishnudharmottara Purana is a Vaishnava-tradition text. It includes mythology and dharma legends, has sections on cosmology, cosmogony, geography, astronomy, astrology, division of time, genealogies (mostly of kings and sages), manners and customs, charity, penances, law and politics, war strategies, medicines and their preparation for human beings and animals, cuisine, grammar, metrics ...
In fact, this Purana is the Essence of all the Puranas. How can the other Puranas be compared with this, wherein is established the Devi Mula Prakriti? Reading this Purana from the beginning to the end yields the result of reading the Vedas. So the wise persons should try their best to study it always. —
Basava Purana: A 13th-century Telugu epic poem written by Palkuriki Somanatha. It is a sacred text of Lingayat. It is a sacred text of Lingayat. The epic poem narrates the life story of philosopher and social reformer Basava (1134–1196 CE), the founder of Lingayat.
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 'Bhavishya Purana' (Bhaviṣya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The title Bhavishya means "future" and implies it is a work that contains prophecies regarding the future.
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.