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dasha-lakshana

दशलक्षण daśalakṣaṇa

The 'ten marks', the Bhagavata Purana's expanded definition of a Purana, enlarging the older five marks (pancha-lakshana).

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  • 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…

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