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    Vishnu (category Characters in the Bhagavata Purana)
    Avatars' of Vishnu. The Agni Purana, Varaha Purana, Padma Purana, Linga Purana, Narada Purana, Garuda Purana, and Skanda Purana all provide matching lists...
    113 KB (10,754 words) - 06:52, 26 September 2024
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    Puranas (/pʊˈrɑːnə/; Sanskrit: पुराण, romanized: purāṇa, lit. 'ancient, old', IPA: [pʊˈrɑːɳə]) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range...
    71 KB (7,410 words) - 12:59, 26 September 2024
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    The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana...
    104 KB (12,037 words) - 07:43, 30 September 2024
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    The Sanskrit text Garuda Purana is one of 18 Mahapuranas in Hinduism. The Garuda Purana was likely composed in the first millennium CE, with significant...
    35 KB (4,165 words) - 08:43, 19 September 2024
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    Mahāpurāṇam (also Shiva Purana) mentions 64 original jyotirlinga shrines in India. According to a Shiva legend from the Shiva Purana, once, Brahma (the god...
    20 KB (681 words) - 09:36, 11 September 2024
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    The Brahmanda Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्माण्डपुराण, romanized: brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas, a genre of Hindu...
    16 KB (1,863 words) - 05:42, 15 June 2024
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    Vyasa (category Characters in the Bhagavata Purana)
    mantras of the Vedas into four texts, as well as the author of the eighteen Puranas and the Brahma Sutras. He is one of the immortals called the Chiranjivis...
    31 KB (3,480 words) - 12:04, 25 September 2024
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    to the Purāṇas". Shiva Purana IV. 17.47–57. Matsya Purana 154.547. Linga Purana Varāha Purana 23.18–59. For summary of Brahmavaivarta Purana, Ganesha...
    96 KB (11,196 words) - 06:32, 19 September 2024
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    The Shiva Purana is one of eighteen major texts of the Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. It primarily...
    14 KB (1,530 words) - 23:19, 30 June 2024
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    The Padma Purana (Sanskrit: पद्मपुराण or पाद्मपुराण, Padma-Purana or Padma-Purana) is one of the eighteen Major Puranas, a genre of texts in Hinduism...
    12 KB (1,525 words) - 17:58, 19 July 2024
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    The Naradiya Purana (Sanskrit: नारदीय पुराण, Naradiya Purana) or Narada Purana (Sanskrit: नारद पुराण), are two Vaishnavism texts written in Sanskrit language...
    13 KB (1,551 words) - 17:48, 23 August 2024
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    The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mukhyapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. The text contains over 81,000 verses,...
    25 KB (2,611 words) - 11:18, 13 July 2024
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    Vayu Purana, the Vishnu Purana, the Linga Purana, the Markendeya Purana, the Kurma Purana, the Garuda Purana, the Padma Purana and the Shiva Purana have...
    91 KB (10,805 words) - 03:24, 19 September 2024
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    The Devi Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: देवी भागवतपुराणम्, devī bhāgavatapurāṇam), also known as the Devi Purana or simply Devi Bhagavatam, is one of the...
    64 KB (7,461 words) - 16:30, 27 September 2024
  • The Viṣṇu Purāṇa (Sanskrit: विष्णुपुराण) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism. It is an important Pancharatra...
    31 KB (3,839 words) - 13:51, 18 September 2024
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    before the ultimate dissolution of the universe (Mahapralaya). In the Puranas, Kalki is depicted as the avatar who will rejuvenate existence by ending...
    35 KB (3,485 words) - 00:13, 24 September 2024
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    The 'Bhavishya Purana' (Bhaviṣya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit. The title Bhavishya means...
    22 KB (2,734 words) - 04:50, 9 September 2024
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    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...
    20 KB (2,340 words) - 04:24, 19 November 2023
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    inclinations metamorphose into something demonic (Asura). In the Brahmanda Purana, it is stated the term 'Asura' was used for the Daityas due to their rejection...
    34 KB (4,359 words) - 03:44, 18 September 2024
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    Venkateswara finds his mention in the Puranas, mainly in Padma Purana and Skanda Purana (as a form of Vishnu). Other Puranas also describe him as an avatar of...
    33 KB (3,162 words) - 00:50, 27 September 2024
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