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Re: ARTICLE : Puraanas ( was Re: REQUEST : What is VEDANTA AND .....
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Subject: Re: ARTICLE : Puraanas ( was Re: REQUEST : What is VEDANTA AND .....
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From: "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com>
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Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 05:25:55 GMT
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References: <ghenDx9t1K.By8@netcom.com> <ghenDxL7I1.Kp1@netcom.com> <ghenDxxtJA.1MC@netcom.com>
> "H. Krishna Susarla" <susarla.krishna@tumora.swmed.edu> wrote in article
<ghenDxxtJA.1MC@netcom.com>...
> I have also heard it said that there was one Puraana that was split into
18
> puraanas, but in all honesty, I am having trouble finding scriptural
> references to this. I know that the Chandogya Upanishad refers to the
> Puraanas in the singular (as in itihaasa-puraanam panchama vedaanam
veda.h)
> but I was not sure if this was done to indicate a puraana as a genre of
> literature or if it was actually because there was originally one
puraana
> (of course, there was originally one Veda, but...).
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> Do you know of any scriptural information where this 1 Puraana --> 18
> Puraanas split is described?
Hmm... Actually I've heard this from my teachers but I don't know the
source. In the Bhagavat Purana it says Maharshi Veda Vyas taught the 4
Vedas to four of his students and the Purana-Itihasa to Romaharshana who
taught it to his son Suta Pauranik. A footnote to this in the Gujarati
literal translation of the Bhagavat Purana by Girijashankar Mayashankar
Shastri repeats the 1 to 18 story but it doesn't give a source either.
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