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Purana · Narrative families

Understanding Purana traditions

A starting point for creation narratives, devotion, lineages and sacred places.

Puranas are varied works with narrative and devotional material. They should be approached by the name of the work and the chosen edition, rather than treated as one uniform book.

A study library may organise named works such as Vishnu Purana, Shiva Purana, Bhagavata Purana and Markandeya Purana. Those titles describe a future collection here; this introduction does not imply that their complete texts are already available.

For each release we will distinguish a source passage, a new translation, a traditional commentary and an original child-friendly story.

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