Vedas were composed 3,000 years ago, while the Puranas were composed 1,500 years ago. In between, came the great epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, after the Vedas, but before the Puranas. The two ...

The Puranas provide solutions to the major riddles of mundane life by describing how the world was created and who created it. The Puranas contain myths and genealogies, written in a flowing form like ...

After penning thrillers and a biography on actress Sridevi, author-screenwriter Satyarth Nayak is back with a new book titled 'Mahagatha: 100 Tales from the Puranas'. Here's an interview with the ...

“श्रद्धावान् लभते ज्ञानम्” He who has faith gains wisdom. India’s ancient Puranas are not just collections of mythological ...

Hinduism, one of the world's oldest spiritual traditions, is profoundly based in ancient writings. The 18 Mahāpurāṇas are ...

The Puranas are called the fifth Veda, but they are not quite Vedic. We realise this from a single incident that took place in Maharashtra at the start of the 20th century. During the royal rituals of ...

People cannot entirely understand the meaning of the Vedas without the help of Puranas and itihasas. Though very old, the imports of Sri Ramayana and Mahabharatha, the two itihasas, and the 18 Puranas ...

The Puranas constitute an ancient body of Hindu liturgical literature, which describe the exploits, glories and supremacy of the numerous gods of the Hindu pantheon. Leaving aside these often ...

However, in the Puranas, Agastya is seen as a great sage who takes Vedic ideas from North to the South and marries Lopamudra only to repay his debt to his ancestors. Similarly, in the Vedas, we learn ...

The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) Executive Officer D. Sambasiva Rao has announced that the Puranas and Itihasas will be translated into simple Telugu for the benefit of the readers. Taking ...