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Mahapurana

महापुराण mahāpurāṇa

One of the eighteen 'great' Puranas, the principal compendia of cosmology, genealogy, and the deeds of the gods.

Where this term appears

  • What are the Puranas? Scriptures

    The eighteen, and the eighteen behind them The tradition counts eighteen great Puranas, the Mahapuranas .

  • Of Old Treatise

    The Puranas ('that which is of old') are a vast class of Hindu smriti texts that carry the tradition's cosmology, myth, genealogy, ritual and devotion. The…

  • The Book of the Lord Treatise

    The Bhagavata Purana, the Srimad Bhagavatam, is the most popular and influential of the Puranas, especially for the worship of Krishna. In twelve books and some…

  • The Eighteen Treatise

    Eighteen great Puranas, the Mahapuranas , and behind them a second eighteen, the Upapuranas , the lesser Puranas, and behind those a long tail of still smaller works claiming the name.

  • The People's Veda Treatise

    The grand Mahapuranas gave the cosmos; the sthala-puranas gave the neighbourhood its share of that cosmos.

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