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    Ādi purāṇa is a 9th-century CE Sanskrit poem composed by Jinasena, a Digambara monk. It deals with the life of Rishabhanatha, the first Tirthankara. Adi...
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    Adikavi Pampa (redirect from Adi Pampa)
    best known for his epics Vikramārjuna Vijaya or Pampa Bharata, and the Ādi purāṇa, both written in the champu style around c. 939. These works served as...
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    Puranas (/pʊˈrɑːnə/; Sanskrit: पुराण, romanized: purāṇa, lit. 'ancient, old', IPA: [pʊˈrɑːɳə]) are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range...
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    Ādi purāṇa, Nabhirāja lived for 1 crore purva and his height was 525 dhanusha (long bows). Nabhi is depicted as one of the Manus in Bhagavata Purana....
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    Rishabhanatha (redirect from Adi Bhagavan)
    known by many names including Adinatha, Adishwara, Yugadeva and Nabheya. Ādi purāṇa, a major Jain text records the life accounts of Rishabhanatha as well...
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    the 9th century CE. Mahapurana consists of two parts. The first part is Ādi purāṇa written by Acharya Jinasena in Sanskrit. The second part is Uttarapurana...
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    vines, ants, and dust that enveloped his body. According to the Jain text Ādi purāṇa, on the last day of Bahubali's one year long fast, Bharata came in all...
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  • this was in all probability restricted to certain non-Aryan groups". Ādi purāṇa, an 8th-century text of Jainism by Jinasena, is the earliest mention of...
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    Harivaṃśa-purāṇa), as well as 'Jain universal histories' (like Jinasena's 8th-century Ādi-purāṇa). The 'calculation' (Karaṇānuyoga) expositions are mainly works on Jain...
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    The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana...
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    Mahapurāṇa includes "Ādi purāṇa" and Uttarapurana. It was completed by Jinasena's 8th-century disciple, Gunabhadra. "Ādi purāṇa" describes the lives of...
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  • called Adi Purana. Another title for this text is Saura Purana, because it includes many chapters related to Surya, the sun god. The Brahma Purana is a...
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    Satkhandagama Kasayapahuda Pratham -ānuyoga Mahapurana Ādi purāṇa Uttarapurana Harivamsa Purana Carnānuyoga Mulachara Trivarnācāra Tattvartha Sutra † Ratnakaranda...
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    and therefore, a shorter statue was created and successfully erected. Ādi purāṇa, a 10th-century Jain text deals with the ten lives of the first tirthankara...
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  • too occupy a significant portion of the book.[citation needed] Harivamsa Purana suggests that Draupadi was married to only Arjuna as opposed to Hindu traditional...
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  • Matsya Purāṇa Adi (name), a given name in Hebrew and a nickname in other languages Adi (title), a Fijian title used by females of chiefly rank Adi Shankara...
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    The Brahmanda Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्माण्डपुराण, romanized: brahmāṇḍa-purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas, a genre of Hindu...
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    non-violence to all living beings are deva-Brahmaṇas, divine Brahmins. The Ādi purāṇa (9th c.) also discusses the relationship between varna and jati. According...
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  • Āḍi (Sanskrit: आडि) is an Asura in Hindu mythology who appears in the Matsya Purāṇa. He was the son of the demon Andhaka, who was killed by the god Shiva...
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    Mahadevi (redirect from Adi Parashakti)
    Shastri, J. L. (1970). English translation by J. L. Shastri (ed.). The Shiva Purāṇa (includes glossary) – via Wisdom Library. Shiva Mahapurana | Gitapress Gorakhpur...
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  • Devi Adi Parashakti is a mythological television series based on the Hindu texts of the Shiva Purana, the Devi-Bhagavata Purana, the Markandeya Purana, and...
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    (which includes the Ādi purāṇa and Uttara-purāṇa) was completed by his disciple, Gunabhadra, in the 8th century. In the Uttara-purāṇa, Mahavira's life is...
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    Germanic peoples) Vikramarjuna Vijaya and Ādi purāṇa (c. 941), Kannada poems by Adikavi Pampa Ajitha Purana and Gadaayuddha (c.993 and c.999), Kannada...
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    Satkhandagama Kasayapahuda Pratham -ānuyoga Mahapurana Ādi purāṇa Uttarapurana Harivamsa Purana Carnānuyoga Mulachara Trivarnācāra Tattvartha Sutra † Ratnakaranda...
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  • as a classic even to this day. With this and his other important work Ādi purāṇa he set a trend of poetic excellence for the Kannada poets of the future...
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    refer to the unconquerable city of gods. The ninth century Jain poem Adi Purana also states that Ayodhya "does not exist by name alone but by the merit"...
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  • Satkhandagama Kasayapahuda Pratham -ānuyoga Mahapurana Ādi purāṇa Uttarapurana Harivamsa Purana Carnānuyoga Mulachara Trivarnācāra Tattvartha Sutra † Ratnakaranda...
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    Vijayadhavala tika[citation needed] Jinasena, in his celebrated work, Ādi purāṇa praises the Samantabhadra as Acharya Samantrabhadra’s glory reigned supreme...
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    Hindu texts, including the Matsya Purāṇa, the Kūrma Purāṇa, the Liṅga Purāṇa, the Padma Purana, and the Shiva Purana. He is believed to have one thousand...
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  • Satkhandagama Kasayapahuda Pratham -ānuyoga Mahapurana Ādi purāṇa Uttarapurana Harivamsa Purana Carnānuyoga Mulachara Trivarnācāra Tattvartha Sutra † Ratnakaranda...
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