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Old legend of India
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purana
Word definitions for purana in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Purana \Pu*ra"na\, n. [Skr. pur[=a]?, properly. old, ancient, fr. pur[=a] formerly.] One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
ancient Sanskrit writings of a legendary character, 1690s, from Sanskrit puranah , literally "ancient, former," from pura "formerly, before," cognate with Greek paros "before," pro "before," Avestan paro "before," Old English fore , from PIE *pre- , from ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Puran or Purana and similar word Purna can mean: Puran or Purna mean 'complete' in Hindi and Sanskrit respectively, in words like Purna avatar , Purna Swaraj and Purna Yoga . Purana , a type of Hindu Indian literature Purana , a genus of cicadas (Homoptera, ...
Usage examples of purana.
Dheeraj Kumar, General of the Purana Wafadars, our battalion of veterans of the Last Asura War.
Jones had extracted from the Bhagavata Purana another, and, in some respects, very different legend.
Sanscrit account in the Zatapatha Brahmana with those in the later Puranas.
Yama and Telmon had most of the major verses of the Puranas by heart, and were guided by Zakiel to read extensively in chrestomathies and incunabulae, but while Telmon dutifully followed the program Zakiel set out, Yama preferred to idle time away dreaming over bestiaries, prosopographies and maps—most especially maps.
He had bought the brandy in a bottleshop and used a little to preserve the filaments Tamora had filleted from the merchant's body and placed in a beautiful miniature flask, cut from a single crystal of rose quartz, which Yama had found in the wreckage left by the flood when he had been searching for his copy of the Puranas.
He started to read his copy of the Puranas, but did not find anything that was different from his rote learning and put the book away.