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The Hindu Maha Puranas are traditionally attributed to Vyasa, but many scholars considered them likely the work of many authors over the centuries; in contrast, most Jaina Puranas can be dated and their authors assigned. [5] There are 18 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), [8] with over 400,000 verses. [2]
In Hinduism, Itihasa-Purana, also called the fifth Veda, [1] [2] [3] refers to the traditional accounts of cosmogeny, myths, royal genealogies of the lunar dynasty and solar dynasty, and legendary past events, [web 1] as narrated in the Itihasa (Mahabharata and the Ramayana) [1] and the Puranas. [1]
The Puranas, which mean "history" or "old", are Sanskrit texts which were composed between 3rd century BCE and 1000 CE. [46] The Puranas are a vast genre of Hindu texts that encyclopedically cover a wide range of topics, particularly legends and other traditional lore. [47]
The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana (Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa) or simply Bhagavata (Bhāgavata), is one of Hinduism's eighteen major Puranas (Mahapuranas) and one of the most popular in Vaishnavism.
The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The text is a Vaishnavism text named after the half-human and half- fish avatar of Vishnu .
The Epic-Puranic chronology is a timeline of Hindu mythology based on the Itihasa (the Sanskrit Epics, that is, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana) and the Puranas.These texts have an authoritative status in Indian tradition, and narrate cosmogeny, royal chronologies, myths and legendary events.
Mahapurana, the 18 great Puranas of Hinduism, especially the Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana; Mahapurana, a major Jain text by Jinasena; See also Maha ...
The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, were routinely edited, recast and revised over the centuries. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Hazra states that the Bombay manuscript published in the 19th-century is rarer, and is likely older than other versions published from eastern and southern India.