[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Literature, language and dating](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature) › Studies in the Epics and Puranas # Studies in the Epics and Puranas (Studies in the Epics and Purāṇas) Studies of the Mahābhārata, Rāmāyaṇa and Purāṇas: their historicity, chronology, genealogies, critical editions, and Kṛṣṇa problems. - **Language:** English - **Author:** [A. D. Pusalker](https://indike.org/pramana/person/pusalker-ad) - **Extent:** 1,605 passages, 82,698 words - **Text:** complete digital text - **Source:** archive.org · Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1955; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite; chapters and sections… · In copyright (A. D. Pusalker †1973); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that… ## Contents - [c1 Studies in the Epics and Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c1) — 5 parts - [c2 General Editor's Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c2) — 15 parts - [c3 Contents](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c3) — 1 part - [c4 Foreword](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c4) — 7 parts - [c5 Preface](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c5) — 4 parts - [c6 Abbreviations](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c6) — 34 parts - [c7 Introduction](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c7) — 16 parts - [c8 Chapter I: Purāṇic Cosmogony](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c8) — 119 parts - [c9 Chapter II](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c9) — 21 parts - [c10 Chapter III: Vāyu Purāṇa versus Śiva Purāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c10) — 60 parts - [c11 Chapter IV: Kuruśravaṇa and Kuru-Saṃvaraṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c11) — 43 parts - [c12 Chapter V: Historicity of Kṛṣṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c12) — 153 parts - [c13 Chapter VI: Epic and Purāṇic Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955.c13) — 6 parts --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.pusalker-1955) · Pramāṇa