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  2. Brahmanda Purana - Wikipedia

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    The Brahmanda Purana is one of the oldest Puranas, but estimates for the composition of its earliest core vary widely. [11] The early 20th-century Indian scholar V. R. Ramachandra Dikshitar dated this Purana to 4th-century BCE. [11] Most later scholarship places this text to be from centuries later, in the 4th- to 6th-century CE.

  3. Adhyatma Ramayana - Wikipedia

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    Adhyatma Ramayana represents the story of Rama in a spiritual context. The text constitutes over 35% of the chapters of Brahmanda Purana, often circulated as an independent text in the Vaishnavism tradition, [9] and is an Advaita Vedanta treatise of over 65 chapters and 4,500 verses.

  4. Puranas - Wikipedia

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    This story, state Bonnefoy and Doniger, appears in Vayu Purana's chapter 1.55, Brahmanda Purana's chapter 1.26, Shiva Purana's Rudra Samhita's Sristi Khanda's chapter 15, Skanda Purana's chapters 1.3, 1.16, 3.1, and other Puranas. [89] The texts are in Sanskrit as well as regional languages, [4] [5] and almost entirely in narrative metric ...

  5. Lalita Sahasranama - Wikipedia

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    The text says that "One can worship Lalita only if she wishes us to do so." This stotra occurs in the Brahmanda Purana (history of the universe) in the chapter of discussion between Hayagriva and Sage Agasthya in Kanchipuram. [3] Hayagriva is an incarnation of Vishnu with the head of a horse and is held to be the storehouse of knowledge.

  6. Loka - Wikipedia

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    The Brahmanda Purana conceives them to be Bhūta (past), Bhavya (future), and Bhavat (present) [12] The scholar Deborah Soifer describes the development of the concept of lokas as follows: The concept of a loka or lokas develops in the Vedic literature.

  7. Hindu cosmology - Wikipedia

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    According to Richard L. Thompson, the Bhagavata Purana presents a geocentric model of our Brahmanda (cosmic egg or universe), where our Bhu-mandala disk, equal in diameter to our Brahmanda, has a diameter of 500 million yojanas (trad. 8 miles each), which equals around 4 billion miles or more, a size far too small for the universe of stars and ...

  8. Asura - Wikipedia

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    In the Brahmanda Purana, it is stated the term 'Asura' was used for the Daityas due to their rejection of Varuni (Goddess of Wine) after she emerged from the Ocean of Milk (i.e. 'a-sura', meaning 'those who do not have Sura', that is, 'wine' or more generally 'liquor'). [17] [18] However, in other legends, the Asuras accept Varuni (see Kurma).

  9. Brahma - Wikipedia

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    Brahma, states this Purana, emerges at the moment when time and universe are born, inside a lotus rooted in the navel of Vishnu, along with Shiva, who emerged inside a fire rooted in the forehead of the god Vishnu. This Purana states that both Brahma and Shiva are drowsy, err, are temporarily incompetent as they put together the universe. [53]