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Home Dictionary Name: puranaPurana
One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation destruction and renovation of worlds the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes the reigns of the Manus and the transactions of their descendants The principal Puranas are eighteen in number and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas...
Puranic
Pertaining to the Puranas...
Saivites and Vaishnavites
Saivites and Vaishnavites, denotes the image of shiva is worshipped by his worshippers who are called Saivites and the image of Vishnu is worshipped by his worshippers who are known as Vaishnavites. Just when the cult of worship of Shiva and Vishnu started and developed into two distinct cults is very difficult to say, but there can be no doubt that in the time of the Mahabharata these cults were separately developed and there was keen rivalry between them to such an extent that the Mahabharata and some of the Puranas endeavoured to inculcate a spirit of synthesis by impressing that there was no difference between the two deities, Seshammal v. State of Tamil Nadu, AIR 1972 SC 1586: (1972) 2 SCC 11....
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