PURĀṆAS are extensive compendiums of the mytho-history of Bhāratvarṣa (the earlier name of the Indian subcontinent). They participate in the same mythological milieu as epic (itihāsa) and poetic (kāvya) works,...

Purana (Sanskrit: पुराण purāṇa), meaning "belonging to ancient or olden times", is the name of an ancient Indian genre (or a group of related genres) of Hindu or Jain literature (as distinct from oral tradition). They primarily are...

The Citrasutra of the Visnudharmottara Purana. By PARUL DAVE MUKHERJI. Delhi: INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, 2001. Pp. xlv + 293. Rs. 750. For more than seventy-five years, ever since Stella Kramrisch brought out the first printed edition in translation,...

Purana Perennis grew out of a conference on the puranas held at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in August 1985, a conference of which Velcheru Narayana Rao was the true adhvaryu (dixit David Knipe in his concluding remarks). The essays collected in this...