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	Puranas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sage Vyasa is credited with compilation of Puranas from age Yuga to age, and for the current age, he has been identified and named Krishna Dvaipayana, the son of sage Parashara.
		According to the Matsya Purana (a Tamasika Purana itself), the eighteen Puranas are divided into three groups of six according to gunas of people they are primarily meant for.
		Puranas are named after the three main forms of Brahman: Brahma, the Creator; Vishnu, the Protector of Life and Humanity; and Shiva, the Destroyer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Puranas (981 words)

	Manas: Religious texts of India, Puranas
		Around the time when the puranas first began to be composed, the belief in particular deities had become established as one of the principal marks of the Hindu faith, and to some degree the puranas can be described as a form of sectarian literature.
		Among these puranas, the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavata Purana (also known as the Bhagavatam) are, with respect to their standing as works of devotional literature, preeminent; and the Bhagavata Purana is even the supreme work of Krishna devotional literature.
		The Puranas are works that most eminently represent the deep mythic structuring of Indian civilization, and they are properly viewed as expanding upon, modifying, and transforming the orthodox Brahminism of the Vedas, principally by the introduction of the idea of bhakti or devotion.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /southasia/Religions/texts/Puranas.html (884 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> Anga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Matsya Purana describes the father of this eponymous hero as the chief among the demons (danavarshabhah).
		The Puranas list several early kings of Anga.
		Puranas and Harivamsa represent him as the son and immediate successor of Anga, the eponymous founder of the kingdom.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/Anga (698 words)

	E N C Y C L O P E D I A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		In it Siva is represented as explaining to Parvati the nature and attributes of Vishnu, and in the end the two join in adoration of that deity.
		The capital of the former was Ahi-chhatra, whose ruins are found near Ramnagar, and of the latter Kampilya, identical with the modem Kampila, on the old Ganges between Badaun and Farrukhabad.
		He was a disciple of Kapila, and he received the Vishnu purana from Pulastya and taught it to Maitreya.
	www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopP.asp (2267 words)

	Puranas of Hinduism to be researched as History with an open mind
		Vishnu purANa, considered as the chief authority almost like the Sruti by the followers of viSishTAdvaita philosophy, was written by Parasara, Vyasa's father.
		History for the modern mind is what is available through archeological research and due to the fashions set by the western traditions, any research of ancient literature that points to hoary periods several millenia before the common historical era, is looked at with disbelief and therefore not pursued to its logical conclusion.
		purANas have the single objective of talking only about those events and lives of the past which ennoble you and enable you to a better man. Since history always repeats itself, the purpose of history should be to learn the lessons of history and do better in the future.
	www.geocities.com /profvk/purana.html (442 words)

	Puranas and History from the Chapter "Puranas", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
		It is not my purpose to say that you should not read history, but I should like to mention that the puranas are also history and that our youngsters have a great deal to learn from them, a great deal that will help in moulding their conduct and character.
		The purpose of the Puranas is not to give [as history does] a chronological account of kings or their quarrels without imparting lessons on good and evil.
		The emphasis in the Puranas is on dharma and, incidently, they also deal, in a subsidiary manner, with the ruling dynasties, with holy men as well as with ordinary folk.
	www.kamakoti.org /hindudharma/part14/chap2.htm (1367 words)

	Puranas - Ancient Texts - Indian Mythology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The above list is from the Bhagavata Purana, and corresponds to the list given in the Vishnu Purana.
		Sometimes, the Vayu Purana is substituted for the Agni Purana or the Shiva Purana.
		The Matsya, Kurma, Linga, Shiva, Skanda and Agni Puranas are associated with Shiva, and the Brahmanda, Brahma Vaivarta, Markandeya, Bhavishya, Vamana and Brahma are associated with Brahma.
	members.cox.net /apamnapat/citations/Purana.html (278 words)

	Puranas
		Vyasa is the compiler of the Puranas from age to age; and for this age, he is Krishna-Dvaipayana, the son of Parasara.
		The aim of the Puranas is to impress on the minds of the masses the teachings of the Vedas and to generate in them devotion to God, through concrete examples, myths, stories, legends, lives of saints, kings and great men, allegories and chronicles of great historical events.
		The main Puranas are: Vishnu Purana, Naradiya Purana, Srimad Bhagavata Purana, Garuda (Suparna) Purana, Padma Purana, Varaha Purana, Brahma Purana, Brahmanda Purana, Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Markandeya Purana, Bhavishya Purana, Vamana Purana, Matsya Purana, Kurma Purana, Linga Purana, Siva Purana, Skanda Purana and Agni Purana.
	lakshmi.4mg.com /puranas.html (1033 words)

	Purana-list, list of Purana, Puranas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Puranas with Lord Vishnu as the Predominating Deity (Sattva Guna):
		Puranas with Lord Brahma as the Predominating Deity (Rajo Guna):
		Puranas with Lord Shiva as the Predominating Deity (Tamo Guna):
	www.chanakya.com /purana-list.htm (161 words)

	Indian mythical genealogy
		The first list contains a large number of ancient very mythological characters, and they are treated as the progenitors of all the dynasties treated in the puranas.
		The kuru dynasty is the subject of the fourth list whereas all the late dynasties (pradyota, shishunAka, nanda, maurYya, shunga, kanva, andhra and andhrabhRtya) are presented in the
		Finally, a list of contemporaneous members of the dynasties ikSvAku, nAbhAga, anu, puru, nIpa, bRhadratha, Yadu, andhaka, vRSNi and janaka is also provided.
	members.tripod.com /~tanmoy/purgen.html (434 words)

	Avatar - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The philosophy reflected in the Hindu epics is the doctrine of the avatar (incarnation of Vishnu as an animal or a human form).
		Scriptures do not describe any appearance as an avatar by Brahma or Shiva (they are themselves listed as guna avatars) of nirguna Brahman, but zay of Vishnu have appeared a number of times.
		According to the Bhagavata Purana Balarama is said to have appeared in the Dwapara Yuga (along with Krishna) as an incarnation of Ananta Shesha.
	www.timesharetalk.co.uk /information.asp?k=Avatar (3231 words)

	Puranas
		Each of the 19 Puranas has a history associated with it; to give a taste of what this history is, let us consider the Brahma Purana.
		The Brahma Purana is not only the first in the list of Mahapuranas, it is also believed to have been the first to be composed.
		The shortest purana is the Markandeya Purana with 900,000 shlokas.
	members.tripod.com /~m_kk/intro.html (455 words)

	Puranas - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		The Puranas are part of Hindu Smriti; these religious scriptures discuss devotion and mythology.
		However, it is notable that this spheres of existence are seen as temporal in that those who find themselves in those spheres of existence eventually live out their karmas and return to earth in another 'bid' to attain moksha, which transcends such ultimately limited worlds.
		There are many variations and different levels of the temporal planets as seen by different Puranas, eighteen of which are considered primary and often have wildly conflicting views on the nature of the phenomenal universe.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Puranas (468 words)

	Avatar - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Kalki ("Eternity", or "time", or "The Destroyer of foulness"), who is expected to appear at the end of Kali Yuga, the time period in which we currently exist, which will end in the year AD 428899.
		The literature of the Puranas list twenty-five avatara of Vishnu.
		A description of these is found in the Bhagavata Purana, Canto 1.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Avatar (1614 words)

	Puranas - Crystalinks
		The Puranas (Sanskrit 'ancient', since they focus on ancient history of the universe) are part of Hindu Smriti.
		In reality, all Puranas extol the virtues of mainly Vishnu and Shiva, and there are few references to Brahma.
		Among all the Puranas, the Bhagavata Purana is the best known Purna.
	www.crystalinks.com /puranas.html (655 words)

	Hindu Scriptures
		Vyasa is the compiler of the Puranas from age to age; and for this age, he is Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, the son of Parsara.
		The language of the Vedas is archaic, and the subtle philosophy of the Vedanta and the Upanishads is difficult to grasp and assimilate.
		The Sruti is the root; the Smritis, Itihasas and Puranas are the trunk; the Agamas and Darsanas are the branches; and the Subhashitas, Kavyas, Natakas and Alankaras are the flowers of the tree of India’s Culture.
	www.hinduism.co.za /vedas-.htm (10847 words)

	SurajInfo - Ganesha - Welcomes you
		There are 18 known Puranas as ascertained by the scholars on the subject, however their sequence is different at different times.
		This is one Purana, with the significance of Vaishav Purana and hence given importance.
		In this important Purana, of 18000 Shlokas, the story of Shrikrishna and his fun-play with the Gopis is vividly described.
	www.surajinfo.com /ganesha/puranvyas.asp (2069 words)

	Sanskrit Documents List: Projects Listing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A list of common errors in transliteration and Sanskrit conjunts, and others should be prepared to assist the newcomers to transliterations and Sanskrit.
		Prepare a list of 100 sentences in Sanskrit and their meaning which could be used in daily conversation at home with children, on phone with friends.
		One drawback of this list is that there are only a few people who are persuing more than one project on their own.
	sanskrit.gde.to /projects_list1.html (4124 words)

	Ethics of India 30 BC To 1300 by Sanderson Beck
		These are modified by 33 less stable sentiments he listed as discouragement, weakness, apprehension, weariness, contentment, stupor, elation, depression, cruelty, anxiety, fright, envy, arrogance, indignation, recollection, death, intoxication, dreaming, sleeping, awakening, shame, demonic possession, distraction, assurance, indolence, agitation, deliberation, dissimulation, sickness, insanity, despair, impatience, and inconstancy.
		The early Vishnu Purana explains that although all creatures are destroyed at each cosmic dissolution, they are reborn according to their good or bad karma; this justice pleased the creator Brahma.
		The most popular of all the Puranas, the Srimad Bhagavatam was attributed to the author of the Mahabharata, Vyasa, given out through his son Suta.
	www.san.beck.org /AB2-India.html (21954 words)

	Chapter
		But the Puranas insert yet another king before the last-named, and the Ceylonese Chronicles place those three kings at the head of the whole list; the Puranas range the corresponding four kings in the second half of the list.
		If finally the choice lies between the list of the Puranas and that of the Ceylonese Chronicles, which seems to be more probable and trustworthy., I do not hesitate to give the preference wholly and unreservedly to the latter.
		But as to the Puranas I am compelled to think that when the dynasty before Candragupta had once received the name £aisunaga, then in order to exalt its greatness and antiquity, the eponymos and his immediate successors, including Bimbisara and his successors, were placed at the head of the whole series of kings.
	lakdiva.org /culavamsa/vol_0.html (18346 words)

	Myswizard » Avatars
		Scriptures do not describe any appearance as an avatar by Brahma or Shiva (they are themselves listed as guna avatars) of nirguna Brahman, but emanations of Vishnu have appeared a number of times.
		A number of people in more recent times have are considered to be avatars by themselves or by others.
		According to Puranas, Buddha is never considered as a part of Dasa Avatar.
	www.myswizard.com /2005/12/26/avatars (1877 words)

	Puranas - Saatvic, Rajasic, Tamasic? - Audarya Fellowship
		Such categoriizations of purana are merely diverting the attentiion from the truth.
		I don't think when Vyasa categorized it, it means to insult the Puranas but to show which sort of people should learn and understand easily which sort of Purana.
		People should accept that they are born in one of this three qualities and stop pretending they are something else (like Tamasic quality people pretending to be Satvic simply by holding back their anger at the World's imbalance).
	www.audarya-fellowship.com /forums/hinduism/48634-puranas-saatvic-rajasic-tamasic.html#post329102 (1213 words)

	Course Guide for RLAR 725
		Library of Congress subject headings belong to a highly elaborated keyword list which is standard to most library catalogs; their use significantly increases the efficiency of library catalog searches.
		JSTOR [academic journals]: (purana or puranas in articles only in the disciplines of Anthropology, Asian Studies, History, Language and Literature, Philosophy, and Political Science) 159 hits.
		You cannot always be sure of the authenticity of the materials being presented or the scholarly credentials of the authors or producers.
	web.library.emory.edu /subjects/studies/soas/puranas2002.htm (1421 words)

	Vayu Purana
		The Vayu Purana itself states that the Puranas were originally recited by the great god Brahma and that one has to understand the Puranas if one is to appreciate the Vedas and the Upanishadas.
		Although the Vayu Purana states that Daksha’s daughters were the mothers of all beings in the universe, the account is left hanging in the air.
		The Vayu Purana itself states that the varaha kalpa was the seventh kalpa and that the preceding kalpa was the padma kalpa.
	www.astrojyoti.com /vayupurana.htm (16568 words)

	BPrasad's Blog : Kalidasa And Ancient India, BPrasad blogs on sulekha, Indology blogs, BPrasad blog from india
		The Raghuvamsa differs somewhat from the standardised list: Raghu is the son of Dilipa, Dirghabahu being absent; the king Dala is known as Sila; Uktha is absent, and Vajranabha is known as Unnabha; Pushya is absent, and in his place are found Kausalya, Putra and Poushya.
		However, in spite of the assertions of the Ramayana and the Puranas, the Ikshvaku kingdom was quite small; most kingdoms in those days were little more than small principalities consisting of hamlets around a capital where the king lived.
		The Puranas give all kinds of fanciful explanations as to why Rantideva had to sacrifice cows[7], evidently made up to sanctify him in the eyes of Hindus of a later period.
	www.sulekha.com /blogs/blogdisplay.aspx?cid=4580 (3956 words)

	Puranas / Veden / Krishna - consciousness
		Among the large number of Puranas, 18 are called major Puranas.
		Each of these provides a list of all the 18 Puranas, including itself but the names in the list in some Puranas slightly vary.
		Out of the 20 Puranas, six are addressed to Lord Vishnu, six to Lord Shiva and six to Lord Brahma.
	www.lebensplan.com /puranas (270 words)

	4.6. MEMORY OF THE URHEIMAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Of course, persons are sometimes shown in a rather different light in different sources, and there are differences on details between the different Puranas as well as between the Puranas and the other sources; but that is exactly what happens when authentic events (such as a traffic accident) are related by different witnesses.
		The Puranas relate a westward movement of a branch of the Aila/Saudyumna clan or Lunar dynasty from Prayag (Allahabad, at the junction of Ganga and Yamuna) to Sapta Saindhavah, the land of the seven rivers.
		It is not asserted that that was the earliest such emigration: the genealogy starts with Manu’s ten successors, of whom six disappear from the Puranic horizon at once, while two others also recede m the background after a few generations; and many acts of peripheral tribes and dynasties, including their emigration, may have gone unnoticed.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch46.htm (3704 words)

	Avatar - TheoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The term is used primarily to refer to incarnations of Vishnu, whom many Hindus worship as God.
		Kalki, the Destroyer of Foulness, who is expected to appear at the end of Kali Yuga, the time period in which we currently exist, which will end in the year AD 428899.
		The literature of the Puranas list twenty-five avatars of Vishnu.
	www.theowiki.com /index.php/Avatar (525 words)

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