[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [The Purana Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951) › v1.c3.s4.1 # The Purana Index v1.c3.s4.1 The Purāṇa Index v1.c3.s4.1 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s4.1) Already the suggestion has been made that the Vayu Purana is sometimes identified with the Brahmanda Purana. There is still a further suggestion that the Vayu Purana and the Brahmanda Purana were originally one Purana and later on became separate into two Puranas. No doubt passages there are common to both the Puranas. It is reasonable to conjecture therefore that one is indebted to the other by borrowing many a passage from several sections. But tradition persists and includes Brahmanda Purana as a Mahapurana in the lists of all the eighteen Puranas. It is only the Vayu Purana that is omitted in some but this is not the case with Brahmanda. It may be that the Vayu Purana was composed later than the Brahmanda and vice versa. - [Previous: v1.c3.s3.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s3.9) - [Next: v1.c3.s4.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s4.2) - [Up: v1.c3.s4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s4.1) · Pramāṇa