How many verses are in the Skanda Purana?

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How many verses are in the Skanda Purana?​

The Skanda Purana (IAST: Skanda Purāṇa) is the largest Mahāpurāṇa, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts. The text contains over 81,000 verses, and is of Kaumara literature, titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati, who is also known as Murugan.

What is the meaning of Puranas?​

What is the meaning of Puranas?
Puranas (Sanskrit: पुराण Purāna, “of ancient times”) is a Sanskrit word. Puranas are considered as one of the most ancient Indian literature about Hinduism. In fact, the Puranas are post-Vedic Texts and are regarded as the fifth Veda. Sage Vyasa is known to be the compiler of the Puranas from age to age.

What is the Bhagavata Purana?​

The Bhagavata Purana preaches the practice of Bhakti Yoga. In fact, the Puranas contain a wealth of information on yogic practices as well as different branches of spiritual practice. There are as much as 18 main Puranas and 18 minor Puranas (known as Upapuranas). Together they contain over 400,000 verses (slokas).

How many chapters are in Reva Khanda of Vayu Purana?​

How many chapters are in Reva Khanda of Vayu Purana?
Revā Khaṇḍa (Thought to have 232 chapters, Juergen Neuss states that the manuscripts attest this is actually the original Reva Khanda of Vayu Purana which was wrongly included in the Skanda Purana by Veṅkateśvara Steam Press in 1910 and all publications of the Skanda after it. The one belonging to the Skanda has 116 chapters.)
Summary: The English translation of the Skanda Purana, the largest of the eighteen major puranas containing over 81,000 Sanskrit metrical verses. The earliest version of the Skanda Purana probably existed before the 5th century CE and thus preserves an enormous amount of history and information regarding Hindu tradition in an encyclopedic format.

How is the Skanda Purana a tool for the modern historian?​

The Skanda Purana, and the Puranas in general, are a tool for the modern historian of ancient India as they provide considerable help in reconstructing the past history as a major literary source containing such aspects of ancient Indian life listed above. The Puranas are a genre of smrti literature in India.

What is the Skandapurana text?​

What is the Skandapurana text?
The editions of Skandapurana text also provide an encyclopedic travel handbook with meticulous Tirtha Mahatmya (pilgrimage tourist guides), containing geographical locations of pilgrimage centers in India, Nepal and Tibet, with related legends, parables, hymns and stories. This Mahāpurāṇa, like others, is attributed to the sage Vyasa .

 

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Skanda Purana, Hint din metinlerinden oluşan on sekiz Mahapurana türündeki en büyük metindir. Metinde 81,000'den fazla dörtlük bulunmaktadır ve Kaumara edebiyatının bir parçasıdır. Metin, Shiva ve Parvati'nin oğlu olan ve aynı zamanda Murugan olarak da bilinen Skanda'ya adanmıştır. Skanda Purana'nın 81,000 dörtlükten oluştuğu bilgisini paylaştınız. Eğer başka sorularınız varsa ya da detaylı bilgi almak isterseniz bana sorabilirsiniz.