Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana鈥攐ne of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
Chapter 1 - Introduction
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Regarding the adhyayas 27-43 describing the Sun-worship
Dr. Hazra states that the chapters on Sun-worship of the Br.P.
are borrowed from the Samba-Purana, That most of the verses of
the adhs. 29-33 of the Br. P. originally belonged to some other
source is proved according to him by the fact that though in the
Br. P. (28.5) Brahma begins, at the request of the sages to
describe the place of Konaditya or Konarka situated in Utkala
(or epdradesa) on the northern shore of the salt-ocean, in chs.
29-33 he is found to describe Mitravana situated on the bank of
the candrasarit mostly in the same verses as found in the
Samba P. and the Bhavisya P. no mention being made by him of
Konaditya, utkala or of the ocean in these chapters.
The story element again starts in the adh. 32. Here
Aditi, Daksa's daughter prays for a son and thus in connection
with Surya-worship, the link of the genealogy of Daksa's family
is established.
The story of Surya-samjna given in the adh.6 is again
repeated in the adh.32-48. It is again repeated in the adh.89,
the name Samjna is changed to Usa and the names Visti and
Tapi are added in the progeny of Sun. The minor variations in
the stories are not very important.
After treating the Surya-worship in the adhs.28-33,
the story of siva is introduced in the adh.34 all of a sudden
its having no connection with the adh. 33. The case of the
