The Purana Index v1.c3.s1.10

v1.c3.s1.10

The Purāṇa writers who had an insight into these original versions spread far and wide the traditions contained in the Purāṇas. Though they did not merely repeat verbatim what they heard from their master, they did not tamper with the accounts narrated to them. They added something more here and there and thus enlarged the scope and contents of the Purāṇas. The expressions like anuśusruma, smṛtaḥ, iti naḥ śrutam or iti śrutam are enough to point out that they carried on the tradition of the land faithfully. In some of the later Purāṇas also, the terms like Purāvit, Purāṇajña, Paurāṇika Jana, Vamśavit show the author's intimate acquaintance with the extant Purāṇas and their indebtedness to them.