Puranic
Americanadjective
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It was much later that the imagination of Hindu writers took full wing and carried the people into the all but infinite reaches of Puranic chronology.
From India, Its Life and Thought by John P. (John Peter) Jones
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
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
The vanity or policy of Tiberius and Alexander in believing themselves to be, or wishing to be believed, divine, has nothing in common with the grotesque imagination of Puranic Hinduism.
From Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official by William Sleeman
Such are the legends, popular and Puranic, of the coming of the Chitpavans to Western India.
From By-Ways of Bombay by S. M. (Stephen Meredyth) Edwardes
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