Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ]
The second part, composed in the later centuries and narrated as a conversation between Shiva and his son Skanda, contains stories about various social groups of the Brahmins. [12] In this part, Shiva tells his son Skanda that ancient sages established the ten divisions of Brahmins (Pancha Gauda and Pancha Dravida). He describes the different ...
Download QR code; Print/export ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikimedia Commons; ... The Skanda Purana is the largest Purana with 81,000 ...
The Guru Gita (lit. ' Song of the Guru ') is a Hindu scripture that is said to have been authored by the sage Vyasa.The verses of this scripture may also be chanted. The text is part of the larger Skanda Purana.
Shavite puranas such as Ganesha Purana, Shiva Purana and Skanda Purana state that Ganesha is the elder of the two. [37] [38] [39] Mahabharata and the Puranas mention various other brothers and sisters of Skanda or Kartikeya. [40] In the northern and eastern Indian traditions, Kartikeya is generally regarded as a celibate bachelor. [5]
Kachiyappar's greatest composition was the Kanda Puranam, which is the Tamil adaptation of the Sanskrit Skanda Purana. The metres have been composed in the same style as the former. It is made up of six volumes comprising a total of 13,305 stanzas.
The Naradiya Purana mentions that Ardhanarishvara is half-black and half-yellow, nude on one side and clothed on other, wearing skulls and a garland of lotuses on the male half and female half respectively. [43] The Linga Purana gives a brief description of Ardhanarishvara as making varada and abhaya mudras and holding a trishula and a lotus. [44]
English: This is a page from the Skanda Purana manuscript. It is a medieval era tour guide of pilgrimage sites along the Ganges River. Language: Sanskrit Script: Devenagari This manuscript was acquired in the 19th-century, and was produced in or before the acquisition.