Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.2595

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BRAHMAPURĀṆA, (BRAHMAPURĀṆA). This is a great book of twenty-five thousand verses taught to the great hermit-sage Marīci by Brahmā. It is mentioned in Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 271, that if a copy of this book is taken and offered to a Brahmin on the full moon day of the month of Vaiśākha with cow and water, the giver will attain heaven.