Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.650

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.650

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MĀRKAṆḌEYAPURĀṆA. One of the eighteen Purāṇas. The number of granthas in it is ninethousand. It contains a critical study of Dharma and Adharma. It is considered to be very good to give this Purāṇa as gift on the full-moon day in the month of Kārttika (November). (Chapter 272, Agni Purāṇa).

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Agnipurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit