2006-10-22 17:43:21 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Kurma Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text. It is believed to have been directly narrated by the Lord Vishnu to the sage Narad, and it contains the details about the Kurma avatar. Narada is believed to have stated the contents of this Puranas to Sutaji, who narrated this Purana to an assembly of great sages.
2006-10-22 20:22:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Kurma Purana is the 15th Mahapurana and has about 17000 couplets. It has four sections or Samhitas- Brahmi, Bhagvati, Souri and the Vaishnavi Samhita. Since this Purana deals mainly with Lord Vishnu, it is a Sattvika Purana. Kurma is a turtle and this was the incarnation adopted by Vishnu or Narayan to help Churn the Ocean.
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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2006-10-22 18:50:49 · answer #2 · answered by Starreply 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Kurma Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text. It is believed to have been directly narrated by the Lord Vishnu to the sage Narad, and it contains the details about the Kurma avatar. Narada is believed to have stated the contents of this Puranas to Sutaji, who narrated this Purana to an assembly of great sages.
2006-10-22 18:28:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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