Puranic
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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But its mythology, if not Vedic, is also hardly Puranic and it knows nothing of the legends about the pastoral Kṛishṇa.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
This story has an uncouth and barbarous air and seems out of place even in Puranic mythology.
From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Sir Charles Eliot
In one of the early exegetical works, which is occupied somewhat with philosophical matter, there is evidence that a triad existed between the Vedic triad of fires and the Puranic triad.
From The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins
Their religious views and practices have changed, there has been an evolving process; the connection may be traced, and we see the result in the Puranic system of our day.
From Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy
The main river in Indian culture has flowed in four streams,—the Vedic, the Puranic, the Buddhist, and the Jain.
From Creative Unity by Rabindranath Tagore
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