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Essay name: Purana Bulletin

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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies

The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.

Purana, Volume 6, Part 2 (1964)

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132 (of 234)


External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)


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पुराणम� - [purāṇam - ] ʱĀ
(2) The Rajaḥsarga.
karmendriya and five prāṇa.
[Vol. VI., No. 2
The creation includes the five
(3) The Tamaḥsarga. The Tamas creation includes the
pañcabhūta, i. e. earth, water, fire, air, ether.
In some
The supreme God has himself destroyed all deceitfulness
(Māyā) by his own effulgence (nirasta kuhakam).
recentions we find the word 'kapatam' in place of 'kuhakam'.
Kapata means that ignorance which covers the bliss of the
realisation of the supreme Brahman¹.
The Tatastha lakṣaṇa of the supreme God is explained
by the words 'Janmadyasya yata�'. The supreme is represented
as the cause of creation, sublimation and destruction of the
universe, This characteristic is absent at the time of deluge.
The word 'Janmādi' is in singular number and neuter
gender. The compound between the words janman and ādi is
possible in two ways. First, when we have Tadguṇasaṃvijñāna-
bahuvrihi. In this case the noun has direct connection with
viśeṣya and implies the words compounded (viseṣaṇa), for example
lambakarṇamānaya'. Here the bringing of man includes the
bringing of ears also. Since we accept this kind of compound,
it also includes in its meaning the sense of janma. Thus the
meaning will be "whose birth is first (Janma utpattir ādir yasya).
Secondly when we accept the atadguṇasamvijñānabahuvrīhi.
In this case there is no direct connection between the compound
and the compounded. For instance 'dṛṣṭasāgaramānaya'. Here
the bringing of the man does not imply the bringing of the ocean.
Hence the interpretation is-Janma etc. i.e. the creation, subli-
mation and destruction.
The word 'yata�' has also a special significance. As an
indeclinable it indicates the imperishable nature of the supreme
God, the cause of the universe. As a form with the suffix 'tasil',
it declares that the supreme God is the Nimitta kāraṇa as well as
1. Kam Brahmanandam Patati acchādayati iti Kapata�.

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