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→top: I added the correct information and removed the wrong information. It was saying that the Puranas do not enjoy the authority of scriptures‚ but the reality is that they do. And even the Chandogya Upanishad has mentioned the Puranas as the 5th Veda. Tags: Reverted references removed Mobile edit Mobile app edit Android app edit |
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The Puranic literature is encyclopedic,<ref name=merriam /> and it includes diverse topics such as [[cosmogony]], [[cosmology]], genealogies of gods, goddesses, kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, folk tales, pilgrimages, temples, medicine, astronomy, grammar, mineralogy, humor, love stories, as well as theology and philosophy.{{sfn|Bailey|2001|pp=437-439}}{{sfn|Bailey|2003|p=139}}{{sfn|Rocher|1986|pp=16, 12-21}} The content is highly inconsistent across the Puranas, and each Purana has survived in numerous manuscripts which are themselves inconsistent.<ref name=johncort185 /> The Hindu Maha Puranas are traditionally attributed to "[[Vyasa]]", but many scholars considered them likely the work of many authors over the centuries; in contrast, most Jaina Puranas can be dated and their authors assigned.<ref name=johncort185 />
There are 18 ''Mukhya Puranas'' (Major Puranas) and 18 ''Upa Puranas'' (Minor Puranas),{{sfn|Dimmitt|van Buitenen|2012|pp=xii, 4}} with over 400,000 verses.{{sfn|Bailey|2001|pp=437-439}} The first versions of various Puranas were likely to have been composed between 3rd and 10th century CE.<ref name=collins36 />
== Etymology ==
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