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 12, Part 1 (1970)
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啶啶班ぞ啶｀ぎ啷� - [pur膩峁嘺m - ] 笔鲍搁膧狈础
础苍诲丑补办腻蝉耻谤补-惫补诲丑补,
[Vol. XII, No. 1
legends regarding
顿补办峁-测补箩帽补-产丑补苍驳补,
P膩rvat墨-janma, etc., are earlier than the Skanda, Linga and Kurma.28
Further, we find the duties of the four castes, of women, etc.
The stotras in the VP are so numerous that H. P. Shastri calls it
"a number of poems written in a polished k膩vya style, joined very
loosely with one another" 29 There are detailed references to the
images of gods. The Vratas and Tirthas occupy an appreciable
extent of this Pur膩峁嘺. Among the vratas described in this Pur膩峁嘺,
attention may specially be invited to the Nak峁tra-puru峁-vrata.
A艣奴nya-艣ayana-dvitiy膩-k膩l膩峁ａ弓am墨-vrata, and Tapta-k峁沜chra-vrata.
There are descriptions of various T墨rthas, and legends are recounted
about them. The T墨rthas in the Kuruk峁tra appear to receive
special treatment from the author, though V膩r膩峁嘺s墨, Pray膩ga,
Vindhya, Badar墨 and other places are also mentioned.
A comparative study of the legends in the VP with reference
to the similar ones in the other Pur膩峁嘺s and the Mahabharata will
certainly yield fruitful and significant results.
All-India Kashiraj Trust deserves the gratitude of all Indolo-
gists for the Critical Edition of the Vamana-Pura峁嘺-the first Critical
Edition of any Pur膩峁嘺 to have seen the light of the day-recently
published from Varanasi. The Editor, Shri Anand Swarup Gupta,
has done his job quite conscientiously, competently and satis-
factorily. In view of the fact that I have reviewed the book in the
Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute (Vol. 50, 1969),
Curious readers
I do not repeat my remarks about the book here.
are requested to refer to the relevant volume of the Annals.
28, Purana Vivecana (in Gujarati), pp. 196-7.
29. Cat. of MSS, ASB, V, Preface, p. cxxxi.
