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Bhagavata Purana - English Translation (5 Volumes) by G. V. Tagare

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Indian and Hindu Texts

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.; 1ST edition (2014)
ISBN: 978-8120838208
Hardcover: 2288 pages
About: The Purana is a class of literature that treats of ancient religion, philosophy, history, sociology, politics and other subjects. It is an Encyclopaedia of various branches of knowledge and ancient wisdom. It has been defined as a class of literature that contains material on the topics of Creation, Dissolution of Manus, Ages of Manus, Genealogies and the History of glorious kings. For dealing primarily with these subjects it has been called Pancalaksana a little that was incorporated in the Puranas themselves and had become popular by the Fifth Century A.D., for it was included by Amarasimha in his lexicon 'Amarakosa'. But as the process of interpolation continued, the Pancalaksana definition was found inadequate. The Puranic redactors adopted a Dasalaksana definition that suited the contemporary text. Still, the dynamic forces were at work and the process of insertion, modification, and abridgment went on and it was soon discovered that the Dasalaksana definition too fell short of an actual fact...

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