2006-10-22 17:24:33 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Agni Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, contains descriptions and details of various incarnations (avatars) of Vishnu. It also has details account about Rama, Krishna, Prithvi, and the stars. It has a number of verses dealing with ritual worship, cosmology, history, warfare, and even sections on Sanskrit grammar and meter, law and medicine. Tradition has it that it was originally recited by Agni to the sage Vasishta.
2006-10-23 01:08:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
This is the 8th Mahpurana and is about 15,500 shlokas long. the Agni Purana attaches a lot of importance to Shiva and talks more about social norms and rituals and hence is considered a Tamasika Purana. It gives in capsule form the essence of Advaita Brahmajnana.
The Puranas are sacred Hindu texts that were composed many hundreds of years ago. The knowledge of the Puranas supplements the knowledge of the Vedas and the Upanishads. There are a number of Puranas, but 18 or 19 Mahapuranas (there is a dispute in one of the Puranas being a Mahapurana or not). The main confusion is about the fourth Purana - is it the Shiva Purana or the Vayu Purana? The other Puranas are known as Upapuranas.
The Purana definition of the Mahapurana is that it must exhibit five characteristics: _It must describe the original creation of the universe (sarga), the periodic destruction and recreation (pratisarga) , the different eras (manvantras), the histories of the solar dynasty (Surya vamsha) and the lunar dynasty (Chandra vamsha), and the royal genealogies (vamshanucharita).
In the strictest sense, only the Vishnu Puran conforms to the typology rigidly.
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2006-10-23 02:37:46 · answer #2 · answered by Starreply 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Agni Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, contains descriptions and details of various incarnations (avatars) of Vishnu. It also has details account about Rama, Krishna, Prithvi, and the stars. It has a number of verses dealing with ritual worship, cosmology, history, warfare, and even sections on Sanskrit grammar and meter, law and medicine. Tradition has it that it was originally recited by Agni to the sage Vasishta.
Its composition dates to the 10th or 11th century AD (Werba, Verba Indoarica 1997:6).
2006-10-23 01:37:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-10-23 02:48:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋