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.
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To obey the elders was considered to be a sin.
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Thus the Br. P.
as an ass and a kumbhira and with whom parents are angry
is born as an ass and a cat; if one shouts at his parents
he is born as a parrot; if he beats them, he is born as
a purrak tortoise, a thorn (Satyaka) and a cruel animal.
one who insults an elder borther is born as a heron and a
Jivaka 180.
179. says 'one who hates his parents is born
3 Violation of religious rites also fed to low
births. Thus Br. P. states that one who does not offer
food to Gods and manes is born as a crow, a cock and a
cruel animal (217. 74-75). Not only committing sins, but
contact with sinners was also threatened with punishment
in the form of low births, If a learned brahmin accepts some-
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thing from a sinner he has topass through a chain of low
births. The Br. P. mentions the births of a donkey, an ox,
a Brahmaraks, and finally as a man (217, 37-39) if he
officiates the sacrifice of a sinner, hehas to pass through
the births of insect, an ass, a board, a cock, a fox, a dog,
and then a man again (217. 40-44).
1 179 217 49-54. also of Gar. P. Purva Khanda Acara A. 225
15, 16. Padma P. Kh. a A 63, V. 4b- 13
180 217 76. also of Ex Garuda P. Purva, Acara Khanda
225-21.
