[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [Ancient Indian Historical Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922) › c11.3 # Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c11.3 Ancient Indian Historical Tradition c11.3 - **Language:** English ### [c11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c11.3) The Vāyu and Brahmāṇḍa have the best text of the genealogies. Their accounts agree closely, so that they are really only two versions of the same text. They have a great part of their contents in common, generally almost verbatim, and it appears they were originally one Purana. This is indicated also by the lists given in the Puranas.¹ Nearly all mention the Brahmāṇḍa, putting it last, and omit the Vāyu, though it was one of the best known. The Kūrma² also mentions it last and calls it the Vāyavīya Brahmāṇḍa. The Vāyu and Brahmāṇḍa are named separately only in the Vāyu itself and the Garuḍa.³ These lists are of course late insertions, which could not have been completed till after the latest of these Puranas was composed; yet they show that the two were not regarded as distinct and the differentiation of the one original into two versions with separate names was a later process. Both these Puranas say they were declared by the god Vāyu;¹ thus both were Vāyu-prokta and either might be so described; but the use of the name Brahmāṇḍa in the above lists to the general exclusion of the name Vāyu suggests that Brahmāṇḍa was the older and better-known name. Their version may be conveniently called the ‘Vāyu version’. - [Previous: c11.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c11.2) - [Next: c11.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c11.4) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c11) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c11.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.pargiter-1922.c11.3) · Pramāṇa