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The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mukhyapurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. [1] The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Shaivite literature, [ 2 ] titled after Skanda , a son of Shiva and Parvati (who is also known as Murugan in Tamil literature). [ 3 ]
Kasi Khandamu (Telugu: కాశీఖండము, romanized: Kāśī Khanḍamu) is a Telugu literary work by 15th century poet Srinatha. It is composed in a poetic form of Prabandha style with strict metre. The main subject is the profile of Kasi or Varanasi, extracted mostly from Kasi Khanda of Skanda Purana.
Mulugu Papayaradhya, an 18th-century Telugu poet, is regarded as the first poet to translate the Devi Bhagavata Purana into Telugu. [100] Tirupati Venkata Kavulu also translated this purana into Telugu language in 1896 entitled Devi Bhagavatamu. They have divided the purana into 6 skandas and themselves published it in 1920. [101]
The Skanda Purana is the largest Purana with 81,000 verses, ... Telugu, Bengali, and others which have largely been ignored. ... Agni Purana (in English), Volume 2 ...
The Nectar of chanting: Sacred texts and mantras sung in the ashrams of Swami Muktananda: Sanskrit transliteration with English translations SYDA Foundation Rev. ed edition (1978) ISBN 978-0-914602-16-3; Paramhansa Pranavadarshan, Shri Guru Gita, Pranava, Inc. (2001) ISBN 978-0-9707791-0-6; Shivom Tirth (2005).
The puja is described in the Skanda Purana, [1] a medieval era Sanskrit text. [2] [3] According to Madhuri Yadlapati, the Satyanarayana Puja is an archetypal example of how "the Hindu puja facilitates the intimacy of devotional worship while enabling a humble sense of participating gratefully in a larger sacred world". [4]
A section embedded in Skanda Purana is known as Agastya Samhita, and sometimes called the Sankara Samhita. [4] It was probably composed in late medieval era, but before the 12th-century. [5] It exists in many versions, and is structured as a dialogue between Skanda and Agastya.
According to the Purushottama Kshetra Mahatmya (part of Vaiṣṇava Khaṇḍa, a later 12th century addition to the Skanda Purana [58] [59]) of the Skanda Purana, the deity Yama requested Vishnu to disappear from the region of Purushottama Kshetra, dissatisfied with the direct salvation of those who lived in the region. Vishnu agreed to do so.