[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.2928.4 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2928.4 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2928.4 - **Language:** English ### [c9.2928.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2928.4) The wheel rolled on till it reached the earth, fell down and was crumbled to powder in a particular place. That place became famous later under the name Naimiṣāraṇya. Sūta came to this place. As soon as they saw Sūta, the hermits such as Śaunaka and others who were living there welcomed Sūta with hospitality and told him thus: "Oh! hermit, you are the disciple of Vyāsa. You have learned the eighteen Purāṇas from Vyāsa We are eager to hear them. So please recite to us the Purāṇas, the hearing of which will remit all sins and secure heaven." According to this request Sūta recited the eighteen Purāṇasto the gathering of the hermits. It is in the form of the teaching of Sūta to Śaunaka and the others, i.e. in the form of a dialogue between Sūta and Śaunaka, that the people got the Purāṇas. (Devī Bhāgavata, Skandha I). 3) Sūta was beheaded. In Bhāgavata, Skandha 10, there occurs a story, stating how Balabhadrarāma cut off the head of Sūta as the battle of Kurukṣetra had started when Sūta had been reciting the eighteen Purāṇas in Naimiṣāraṇya and how his head was fixed in its place again and he was brought to life. (For further details see under Balabhadrarāma, Para 6). - [Previous: c9.2928.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2928.3) - [Next: c9.2928.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2928.5) - [Up: c9.2928](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2928) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2928.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2928.4) · Pramāṇa