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Purana

noun
1.
A body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances.





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... was practised on Captain Wilford by a learned Hindu, who, to ingratiate himself and his studies with the too zealous and pious European, contrived, among other attempts, to give the history of Noah and his three sons, in his "Purana," under the designation of Satyavrata. Captain Wilford having read the passage, transcribed it for Sir William Jones, who translated it as a curious extract; the whole was an interpolation by the dexterous introduction of ...
— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli


Words linked to "Purana" :   Sanskrit literature, Puranic


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