upapurana
उपपुराण upapurāṇaA 'lesser Purana'; the secondary Puranas, traditionally eighteen, beside the eighteen great Mahapuranas.
Where this term appears
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
Alongside them stand eighteen lesser Puranas, the Upapuranas , the "sub-Puranas." The Sanskritist R.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
Saura was the tradition of the Sun: a priesthood, a canon of scriptures, and royal devotees, recognised as a peer by its rivals. A Śaiva text preserved in a…
- 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 Goddess Who Would Not Be Forbidden Treatise
The story is told in the Bengali Shakta Upapuranas, above all the Mahabhagavata Purana , a Goddess-text of perhaps the tenth or eleventh century, and the Brihaddharma Purana , which the scholar R.
- Wisdom Through the Forbidden Treatise
…atise keeps them as ranges, and so does this work, because Tantra and Upapurana dating is genuinely uncertain and a century's confidence here would be false.