• Thumbnail for Vishnu Purana
    June 2021. "Visnu-Purana, plain text version". gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de. Retrieved 25 June 2021. Taylor, McComas (2021). The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals...
    33 KB (3,922 words) - 07:59, 6 December 2024
  • month of Māgha (Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Iṣa (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) ॐ Budha - Dwells in the sun during the month of Āṣādha or Śukra (Viṣṇu Purāṇa). Replaces Sahajanya...
    11 KB (1,262 words) - 20:45, 19 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bhagavata Purana
    The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana...
    104 KB (12,039 words) - 10:17, 13 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bhavishya Purana
    The 'Bhavishya Purana' (Bhaviṣya Purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major works in the Purana genre of Hinduism, written in Sanskrit. The title Bhavishya means...
    22 KB (2,743 words) - 21:55, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Shahi Jama Masjid
    vehicles, weapons, warriors, arms, and coats of mail will wait on him. The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes, translated by Taylor, McComas...
    24 KB (2,526 words) - 01:47, 22 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vishnu
    Vishnu (redirect from Viṣṇu)
    Vishnu (/ˈvɪʃnuː/; Sanskrit: विष्णु, lit. 'All Pervasive', IAST: Viṣṇu, pronounced [ʋɪʂɳʊ]), also known as Narayana and Hari, is one of the principal...
    112 KB (10,753 words) - 22:13, 9 December 2024
  • Brihada Vishnu Purana (Sanskrit: बृहद विष्णु पुराण) also known as Brihat Vishnu Purana (Romanised: Bṛhat Viṣṇu Purāṇa) or Vrihadda Vishnu Purana is a Sanskrit...
    5 KB (418 words) - 10:13, 20 November 2024
  • iti ha āsa इति ह आस, which means "so indeed it was". Puranas, /pʊˈrɑːnə/; Sanskrit: पुराण, purāṇa literally means "ancient, old." Itihasa refers to the...
    24 KB (2,231 words) - 02:23, 7 December 2024
  • attributes), Śrī (splendour), Kīrti (fame) etc. Thus, Bhaga, as per Viṣṇu Purāṇa, refers to the six attributes of the Lord – aiśvaryam (wealth), vīryam...
    73 KB (8,784 words) - 16:09, 27 November 2024
  • uninterrupted. According to Śrīdhara's commentaries on the Bhāgavata Purāṇa and the Viṣṇu Purāṇa (c. 1250), Viṣṇusvāmī considered Narasiṁha to be the supreme...
    5 KB (437 words) - 01:25, 20 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Trimurti
    Viṣṇu, and Śiva... But the attempt cannot be regarded as a great success, for Brahmā never gained an ascendancy comparable to that of Śiva or Viṣṇu,...
    15 KB (1,623 words) - 14:03, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dhanurveda
    warfare. Several works of ancient literature refer to Dhanurveda. The Viṣṇu Purāṇa refers to it as one of the eighteen branches of knowledge, and the Mahābhārata...
    11 KB (1,324 words) - 15:36, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Skanda Purana
    The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mukhyapurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. The text contains over 81,000 verses,...
    25 KB (2,611 words) - 08:04, 9 December 2024
  • Mimamsa (Purva Mimamsa) Vedanta (Uttara Mimamsa) Parashara – writer of Viṣṇu Purāṇa. Rishi Narayana – seer of the Purusha Sukta of the Rig Veda. Seven Rishis...
    28 KB (3,233 words) - 20:15, 8 November 2024
  • Shaka-dvipa: 8 definitions". www.wisdomlib.org. Retrieved 29 December 2022. The Visnu Purana: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes. ANU Press. 23 June 2021....
    3 KB (335 words) - 15:35, 7 November 2024
  • the text (1.24) to be for Kali Yuga. Speaker of Viṣṇu Purana to Maitreya. Speaker in Brihada Vishnu Purana to Maitreya. Speaker of the Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra...
    14 KB (1,818 words) - 23:20, 4 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pururavas
    found in the Mahābhārata, the Harivaṃsa, the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, the Matsya Purāṇa, and the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. The Ṛg-veda, X.129 contains a conversational...
    9 KB (1,110 words) - 16:02, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Varendra rebellion
    mixed caste—sankīrṇa jāti, or as antyajas. The Vaṃśānucarita  of the Viṣṇu  Purāṇa mentioned that a king of Magadha, having overthrown the traditionally...
    18 KB (1,626 words) - 14:53, 4 December 2024
  • weapons. The Dhanur Veda was first described in the 5th-century BCE Viṣṇu Purāṇa and is also mentioned in both of the major ancient Indian epics, the...
    180 KB (18,659 words) - 14:56, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buddhism and Hinduism
    Likewise, as noted by Klaus K. Klostermaier, the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, an ancient and authoritative Purana, "presents the Buddha as a heretic and a seducer of...
    134 KB (17,209 words) - 06:42, 18 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gokul
    located 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) south-east of Mathura. In the Viṣṇu Purāṇa and Bhāgavata Purāṇa, the term "gokula" does not refer to any specific location...
    9 KB (774 words) - 00:13, 9 December 2024
  • Kashmir. Oxford University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-19-088982-1. The Visnu Purana: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes. ANU Press. 23 June 2021....
    6 KB (595 words) - 19:24, 6 November 2024
  • 185 Bhagavata Purana, VIII.24 Visnu Purana, IV.5 Visnu Purana, IV.6 Visnu Purana, IV.7 Mahabharata, V.9-18 Mahabharata, I.76-93 Visnu Purana, IV.10 Mahabharata...
    29 KB (4,016 words) - 21:43, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of archery
    evident from references made in several works of ancient literature. The Viṣṇu Purāṇa refers it as one of the eighteen branches of knowledge taught, while...
    71 KB (8,513 words) - 07:59, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tantra
    tantric Upanishads, which are late Upanishads as well as tantric Puranas (and Puranas influenced by tantric ideas). Besides these types of texts, there...
    119 KB (14,977 words) - 17:43, 8 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yerrapragada
    based on the Brahmandapuranamu and the Vishnupuranamu. According to the Viṣṇu Purāṇa, King Hiraṇyakaśipu was the powerful demonic sovereign of the Earth millions...
    6 KB (573 words) - 05:31, 10 October 2024
  • The Nilamata Purana (Sanskrit: नीलमत पुराण, romanized: nīlamata purāṇa), also known as the Kasmira Mahatmya, is an ancient text (4th to 8th century CE)...
    10 KB (1,452 words) - 11:28, 6 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Harivaṃśa
    the Harivaṃśa, it appears to be anterior to the former. Therefore, the Viṣṇu parva and the Bhaviṣya parva can be dated to at least the 3rd century CE...
    15 KB (1,800 words) - 04:30, 7 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Satyanarayana Puja
    any Vaishnava poets, but is mentioned in the Revā Khaṇḍa of the Skanda Purāṇa. Karim also states that Old Bengali poets who write about Satyanārāyaṇa...
    14 KB (1,794 words) - 11:35, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Krishna
    Krishna (category Characters in the Bhagavata Purana)
    pp. 436–438. ISBN 978-81-317-1120-0. Osmund Bopearachchi, Emergence of Viṣṇu and Śiva Images in India: Numismatic and Sculptural Evidence, 2016. Srinivasan...
    141 KB (15,101 words) - 05:33, 14 December 2024