dasha-lakshana
दशलक्षण daśalakṣaṇaThe 'ten marks', the Bhagavata Purana's expanded definition of a Purana, enlarging the older five marks (pancha-lakshana).
Where this term appears
- Of Old Treatise
…ally ambitious of them, quietly replaces the five marks with ten, the dasha-lakshana , adding categories for divine sustenance, for the deeds of the Lord, and for the soul's final resort, so that the definition…