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	Puranic Discourses and Films from the Chapter "Puranas", in Hindu Dharma : kamakoti.org:
		It is true that puranic themes are enacted on the stage or potrayed on the screen and may be some people benefit a little.
		More often than not the impact made by puranic films is unhealthly since the producers usually attempt to make them as spicy or as exciting as possible with the addition of undesirable features for, after all, the purpose of making movies is popular entertainment, not providing moral or spiritual instruction.
		The puranic stories must be told without straying too far from the text and a healthy impression must be made on the minds of the audience.
	www.kamakoti.org /hindudharma/part14/chap14.htm (895 words)

	Puranic Time and the Archaeological Record
		If one were to take the Puranic record as objectively true, and also take into account the generally admitted imperfection and complexity of the archaeological and anthropological record, one could make the following prediction.
		The strata of the earth, extending back hundreds of millions of years, should yield a bewildering mixture of hominid bones, some anatomically modern human and some not, as well as a similarly bewildering variety of artefacts, some displaying a high level of artistry and others not.
		According to Puranic accounts, we are now in the twenty-eight yuga cycle of the seventh manvatara period of the present day of Brahma.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/purantime.htm (5216 words)

	4.6. MEMORY OF THE URHEIMAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		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.
		To be precise, the Puranic king-list as known to Greek visitors of Candragupta’s court in the 4th century BC or to later Greco-Roman India-watchers, started in 6776 BC.
		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)

	VNN Editorial - The Hollow Earth In The Puranas
		One such Puranic comment has to do with the narration of the Kalki avatar- That at the end of Kali Yuga, the Kalki Avatar will be born in the best of Brahmin families of Shambala to anniliate miscreants on the surface of the globe.
		There is yet another prominent Puranic story which openly makes reference to the hollow portion of the Earth- It is the story of the sons of Maharaj Sagara.
		And quite possibly the Tibetan hollow Earth lore has been better conserved because of the tunnels that are said to run between the Agharta and Tibet- it is possible that the Tibetans received influence from the hollow Earth for a longer period of time for this reason.
	www.vnn.org /editorials/ET0002/ET16-5483.html (1138 words)

	The Hindu : Harappa and Vedic Civilisation
		The Aryan problem, she said, in her Presidential address to the Ancient Indian History Section, XXXI Indian History Congress at Varanasi, "was perhaps the biggest red herring dragged across the path of the historians of India".
		Not only that, Puranic history allows us to take up the story at both the northern and southern extremities of the Harappan spillover (as shown in the map which accompanied the first part of this article).
		Second, Puranic history is consistent with the archaeological evidence that does exist; it has suffered no hiccups so far.
	www.hindu.com /thehindu/mag/2002/07/07/stories/2002070700310400.htm (1529 words)

	Puranic gods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		We recommend this article: Puranic gods - 1, and also this: Puranic gods - 2.
		Puranic gods is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
		There are only five Puranic gods and the Sun is one of them but the images of the remaining four gods Ñ Vishnu, Shiva, Ganesh and Durga Ñ are also found in Him.
	www.experiencefestival.com /puranic_gods (897 words)

	j a g a t ~ h o m e p a g e - Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		By the time of the ViP, however, the puranic tradition of the adulterous natureof the loves of at least some of the gopis with Krishna is fully established, though the details of such a relationship, the fears and deceptions, etc., involved in such a relationship, do not play any part in the ViP narrative.
		The chief puranic source used by its author was ViP, though the influence of the Dravidian Vaishnava literature, as well as those of the Jains and VedAntists are all clearly discernable.
		Perhaps as a result of the increased emphasis created by the puranic tradition, both the final viraha and the parakIyA relation were not only anathema to the critical tradition, which also increasingly sought something in the manner of purity in love, as we have come to expect from the occidental courtly tradition.
	www.jagat.wisewisdoms.com /articles/showarticle.php?id=41 (8103 words)

	Puranas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It should be noted that both Heaven and Hell are temporary abodes for life and once the Karma that is responsible for birth in Heaven and Hell is exhausted, the soul transmigrates to other forms and worlds of existence.
		Two of the other most important worlds in Puranic Cosmology are the "Realm of Brahma", the highest possible plane of existence where Souls of extraordinary Karma reside before attaining Moksha, and The Vaikuntha, or the Realm of Vishnu.
		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.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Puranas.htm (491 words)

	Vedas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is only in the Puranic texts that one finds that if true followers take a holy dip in these sacred waters, offer puja to the installed god along with the regulatory gifts, the god, sated, fulfils the desires of his devotees.
		In the Puranic texts we find both men and saints, and the gods themselves frequently burst forth with either curses or blessings, with or without reason – the curses tragically coming true, and the blessings often fructifying in favour of the undeserving.
		We also find that in the Puranic texts these supra-natural forces and agencies were made so powerfully potent not only in human life, but for the gods as well that an air of helpless anxiety hung over social life.
	www.ganashakti.com /old/1999/990802/feature1.htm (1383 words)

	MANJESHWAR or Manjulakshetra with its puranic background is celebrated for its Temple dedicated to Srimad Anantheshwara (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		MANJESHWAR or Manjulakshetra with its puranic background is celebrated for its Temple dedicated to Srimad Anantheshwara, that is Shri Shiva accompanied by Shesha or Anantha.
		Originally in the Madras State but now in Kerala, Manjeshwar is situated 17 Kilometers south of Mangalore on the Cochin - Mangalore section of the Southern Railway, the Temple is about a Kilometer and a half from the Railway Station, being easily accessible by metalled road.
		A chapter in the purana is devoted to the pilgrimage of a saint called Virupaksha, of the Gowda Saraswat Community to the holy shrines in the South "Inter alia", it says that the saint settled down in Manjeshwar and spent his last days there worshipping the image of Lord Shiva and finally attaining "Moksha".
	bhagath.com /Manjeshwar.htm (973 words)

	HE_Puranas_Article
		One such Puranic comment has to do with the narration of the Kalki avatar- that at the end of Kali Yuga, the Kalki Avatar will be born in the best of Brahmin families of the city of Shamballa to annilate miscreants on the surface of the globe.
		Afterwards, the general Puranic version goes that Vedic culture will be re-settled on the surface of the Earth from the interior of the planet.
		But the Puranic evidence is actually of much interest to the adherents of the Hollow Earth Theory; it actually constitutes a landmark addition to the body of hollow Earth evidence.
	www.holloworbs.com /HE_Puranas_Article.htm (1266 words)

	Salagram kosh ch 4
		The expression Shaalagraama, which is of the Puranic celebrity, refers to a particular site in the course of this stream, where the sacred stones were found in profusion.
		There is a puranic story (Varaaha purana) which explains how the village on the banks of the Gandaki-river got the name 'Shaala-graama'.
		The salagrama-lore that seeks to identify the different stones and ascertain their worship-worthiness is obviously a part of the later puranic culture.
	www.salagram.net /sstp-salasali.html (4887 words)

	Subhash Kak's Blog - Subhash Kak web blogs, Subhash Kak blogger in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It is most significant that the Puranic king-lists imply 1924 BC as the epoch of the Mahabharata War.
		The Puranic memory of the Mahabharata war having occurred in 1924 BC may represent the transference of a much earlier event to the cataclysmic event at the end of the Harappan period.
		If one gives credence to the Puranic genealogies, then 1924 BC would be the time for the War; if, on the other hand, we go by the astronomical evidence related to the Vedas and the subsequent literature, then 3137 BC remains a plausible date.
	www.sulekha.com /column.asp?cid=305835 (1877 words)

	Conception and Evolution of The Mother Goddess in India
		During the period after the Mahabharata to the emergence of the Puranic era around the 4th-5th century A.D., the Devi is only the little quoted theme in literature and art of the elite.
		The worship of Devi was those days a wide spread phenomenon, yet till her elevation to the status of a Puranic deity, such worship was confined to only, or mostly, around the remoter corners of the primitive world of tribes.
		The Puranic Devi, or the Mother Goddess, despite the related metaphysics, is more a humanized Being with an abundance of mythology woven around Her.
	www.exoticindiaart.com /article/mother (3683 words)

	puranic
		During this entire time, according to the Puranic accounts, humans coexisted with creatures in some ways resembling the earlier toolmaking hominids of modern evolutionary accounts.
		If one were to take the Puranic record as objectively true, and also take into account the generally admitted imperfection and complexity of the archeological and anthropological record, one could make the following prediction.
		The strata of the earth, extending back hundreds of millions of years, should yield a bewildering mixture of hominid bones, some anatomically modern human and some not, as well as a similarly bewildering variety of artifacts, some displaying a high level of artistry and others not.
	www.mcremo.com /puranic.html (4999 words)

	FarShores Ancient Mysteries News: Reviews of Mysteries of the Sacred Universe
		Thompson looks at this cosmology from several points of view and he presents a compelling case showing that this cosmology was intended to have multiple meanings that span the terrestrial, the astronomical, and the spiritual planes.
		The misunderstanding of the vocabulary and the nature of Puranic cosmology by the 19th-century Western scholars was responsible, in large part, for an erroneous assessment of the nature of the Indian civilization.
		Instead of viewing the Puranic literature as being composed by those who were less knowledgeable and limited in their understanding and superstitious in their ways, his interpretations shows that they had a very advanced understanding of the universe around them.
	www.100megsfree4.com /farshores/amsu_2.htm (2021 words)

	Kodava.org - Official Website of Kodava Community
		Puranic version says, that the land of initial settlement was called Krodadesa which later became Kodavu.
		Puthari (Huttari) the harvest festival known for varieties of folk dances 3 months after Onam in Kerala, Kailpoud the ayudhapuja with shooting competition and sports on 3rd September and village temples with its own set of discipline and dances during the annual fairs are the main centres of cultural activities
		The Puranic version is upheld to this day with Annual fair at Balamuri about 4 km from Murnad, every year in the morning succeeding Thirthodbhava at Tala Kaveri, Kannipuje at home by ladies etc. Sari style of Kaveri with the knot back at Balamuri is retained to this day by Kodava community.
	www.kodava.org /kcontent/k2intro.asp (1197 words)

	iskcon.com - ISKCON Communications Journal - ICJ
		If one were to accept the Puranic record as objectively true, and also take into account the generally admitted imperfection and complexity of the archaeological and anthropological record, one could make the following prediction.
		The strata of the earth, extending back hundreds of millions of years, should yield a bewildering mixture of hominid bones, some anatomically modern human and others not, as well as a similarly bewildering variety of artefacts, some displaying a high level of artistry and others not.
		According to Puranic accounts, we are now in the twenty-eight yuga cycle of the eighth manvatara period of the present day of Brahma.
	www.iskcon.com /icj/2_2/drutakarma.html (4858 words)

	Venus
		In fact, according to the Puranic descriptions, there is life and activity on all the planets.
		It is important for followers of the Puranic version to understand these statements so that their faith in the entire Vedic presentation may not be shaken.
		Such an understanding would completely vindicate those puranic statements which seem so fantastic that they are unintelligible to us currently, and establish new-found validity for the puranic astronomical scheme of things.
	www.holloworbs.com /Venus.htm (2004 words)

	Razdan Sahib's Puranic Picture Gallery
		In this devotional lyric cosmos is the studio-cum-exhibition hall, Lord Vishnu is the model and Krishna Joo Razdan, incognite as Narada, is the inspired literary painter.
		These three Puranic episodes are held by a single picture-frame forming the fourth quatrain of the poem.
		On the completion of his education at Sandipini's hermitage, the guru asks his illustrious disciple to bring to life his son drowned in a naval tragedy.
	www.koausa.org /KoshSam/Krishna_joo.html (1582 words)

	Brahmanic Dark Ages Classified [ The Classification of the Brahmanical Dark Ages into the Vedic Dark Ages, the Sutric ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Brahmanic Dark Agee which lasted from 1500 BC to 1000 AD were the most severe period of darkness in the entire history of the world.
		Yet it was somewhat brighter than the preceding Vedic Dark Age and the much darker succeeding Puranic Dark Age.
		However, all such indluences were obliterated in the Puranic Dark Ages.
	www.dalitstan.org /journal/brahman/bra000/bda_class.html (1566 words)

	Welcome To LordMurugan.com Home Page
		Around this town are famous religious places such as Kancheepuram (Banares of the South) on the South, Sholingar and Vallimalai on the West, the popular and renowned pilgrimage centre, Tirupati (otherwise called Balaji) and Kalahasti (with its Vayu Lingam) on the North and Tiruvalangadu (of puranic fame) with Lord Nataraja on the East.
		Puranic Importance Of Lord Murugan's six Padaiveedus, Tirutanikai ranks prominent as the crown jewel of our Lord.
		Apart from the puranic greatness of Tirutanikai, Saint Arunagirinathar, the illustrious devotee of Lord Muruga who lived 600 years ago, praised this hill as the chosen place for worship by devas and the favorite abode of saints performing prolonged tapas (austerities).
	www.lordmurugan.com /tiruttani.htm (1253 words)

	the Puranic Tradition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This work represents a seminal text in the field of Puranic Studies.
		This work is an excellent collection of issues, ideas, figure, etc. in the Puranic and Epic literature.
		The citations are a useful starting point for further research and often contain scriptural references where additional information can be found.
	www.colorado.edu /ReligiousStudies/TheStrip/Archive/Hindu/purana.htm (506 words)

	2.4. ADDITIONAL ASTRONOMICAL INDICATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Indeed, the Puranic king-list as known to Greek visitors of Chandragupta’s court in the 4th century BC or to later Greco-Roman India-watchers, started in 6776 BC.
		This would, according to the implicit chronology of Puranic tradition, be the time of Manu’s enthronement, Manu being the Aryan patriarch who established his kingdom in North India after having survived the Flood.
		One of Manu’s heirs was Ila, ancestress of Yayati, whose five sons became the patriarchs of the “five peoples” who form the ethnic horizon of the Vedas, one of them being Puru; in Puru’s tribe, then, one Bharata started the Bharata clan to which most of the Vedic seers belonged.
	www.bharatvani.org /books/ait/ch24.htm (3684 words)

	Puranic Aryan Invasions, ( The Bible of Aryan Invasions Vol. V ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Puranic Aryan Invasions, (The Bible of Aryan Invasions Vol.
		The Scythic Aryans invaded India, and in the course of a massive genocide spanning several centuries, exterminated the Sudroid populations from the Rajasthan region.
		However, the Maratha revival under Shivaji led to a restoration of the apartheid laws of Brahmanic Vaishnavism.
	www.dalitstan.org /books/bibai/bibai5.html (1209 words)

	Veda Study
		What ribhu word means, puranic texts do not seem to be of much help in this regard, though vedic texts attribute their story about ribhus to puraanas.
		Ribhus have been said to be three brothers who are sons of Sudhanvaa and disciples of Twashta, the carpenter of gods.
		First step towards implementation has already begun, via formation of the Global Synergy Foundation, as chapter of National Heritage Foundation which is a fully accredited charitable public organization registered with U.S. IRC 501(c)(3).
	vipin48.tripod.com (1586 words)

	A Gap in Puranic History Bridged by Pradip Bhattacharya
		Despite the casual tossing away of Puranic accounts by Indologists prejudiced by western historicism, the fact remains that these texts provide a remarkably detailed account of dynasties of rulers along with a picture of social conditions that need to be included in any marshalling of facts relating to ancient India.
		A major puzzle that has faced scholars in this area is the absence of references to invasions by Greeks and Scythians whose historicity is substantiated through other sources.
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	www.boloji.com /history/027.htm (1412 words)

	Hindu Theory of World Cycles
		The 5100th year of Kali Yuga will correspond to the year 2,000 A.D. That means that we are fairly early in Kali Yuga and this age will continue more than 426,000 more years.
		The "Traditional Puranic Model" described above is agreed upon by most authors on Hinduism and Yoga.
		Yukteswar goes on to say that the Hindu almanacs, which correspond to the traditional Puranic model described previously, are in error.
	baharna.com /karma/yuga.htm (3431 words)

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