Kane, it is not certain whether these texts suggested several works or single work with the term Purana. The term Purana appears in the Vedic texts. These three, together with Lomaharshana’s, comprise the Mulasamhitafrom which the later eighteen Puranas were derived. The ancient tradition suggests that originally there was but one Purana. Vyasathe narrator of the Mahabharatais hagiographically credited as the compiler of the Puranas. They have been influential in the Hindu cultureinspiring major national and regional annual festivals of Hinduism. The Puranic literature is encyclopedic, and it includes diverse topics such as cosmogonycosmologygenealogies of gods, goddesses, kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, folk tales, pilgrimages, temples, medicine, astronomy, aetadasa, mineralogy, humor, love stories, as well as theology and tflugu.
My Telugu reading is very slow because I learnt writing/reading it very late in life. I read Puranas in Hindi/English translation.
The first but in regional languages such as Tamil, Telugu, Bengali and others which have largely been ignored. The word Puranas literally means “ancient, old”, and it is a vast genre of Indian literature about There are 18 Maha Puranas (Great Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over, verses.
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