The Skanda Mahapuranam (Sanskrit Only in Eight Volumes) - Horizontal Pothi Edition
Book Details
Author(s)Dr. Prakashpanday
PublisherRastriya Sanskrit Sansthan
ISBN / ASINB008RXSM98
ISBN-13978B008RXSM97
Sales Rank99,999,999
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Language: sanskrit
Pages: 3144
INTRODUCTION
A vast literature available in the form of Puranas, stands next to the Vedas in its importance. It envisages to popularise the precepts, morals and values, propounded in the Vedas. It not only succeeded in its mission but also in completely revolutionising and modernising the Vedic religion. Later and modern Hindu religion is an off shoot of the Pauranic religion. The path of devotion and lordship propounded in the Vedas and the Upanisads as against the path of ritualistic exercises was followed more vigorously in the Puranas. Thus the Puranas freed the religion from the clutches of the chosen few and spilled is over to masses who were unable to understand the complexities of the Vedic doctrines. In this way a socialistic approach is clearly discernible in these ancient treaties, Their prime concern was the common man and not elite section of the society. They were devised as vehicles of the liberal education for the masses. Through the medium of interesting and beautiful stories, episodes and narrations the Puranas presented the abstruse subjects of the Vedas and the Upanisads, so that the common man m!!j be benefited by their study. Hence they have been a great source of the inspiration to the mass-mind especially on religious matters. For the modern Hinduism, the Puranas are religious treatises of divine origin.
A noticeable change can be discerned in the Puranas In social rites and customs, religious traditions and moral and manners from that of the vedas and others. The Vedic hymns of creation, of praise, portraying incidents connected with some ancient Kings, may be taken as the nucleus from which Purana arose. The value of the Puranas cannot be minimized by calling their avowed theme, the presentation of the history of the Guptas up to the end of the 5th Century A. D. Altekar correctly stressed the importance of the Puranas a
Pages: 3144
INTRODUCTION
A vast literature available in the form of Puranas, stands next to the Vedas in its importance. It envisages to popularise the precepts, morals and values, propounded in the Vedas. It not only succeeded in its mission but also in completely revolutionising and modernising the Vedic religion. Later and modern Hindu religion is an off shoot of the Pauranic religion. The path of devotion and lordship propounded in the Vedas and the Upanisads as against the path of ritualistic exercises was followed more vigorously in the Puranas. Thus the Puranas freed the religion from the clutches of the chosen few and spilled is over to masses who were unable to understand the complexities of the Vedic doctrines. In this way a socialistic approach is clearly discernible in these ancient treaties, Their prime concern was the common man and not elite section of the society. They were devised as vehicles of the liberal education for the masses. Through the medium of interesting and beautiful stories, episodes and narrations the Puranas presented the abstruse subjects of the Vedas and the Upanisads, so that the common man m!!j be benefited by their study. Hence they have been a great source of the inspiration to the mass-mind especially on religious matters. For the modern Hinduism, the Puranas are religious treatises of divine origin.
A noticeable change can be discerned in the Puranas In social rites and customs, religious traditions and moral and manners from that of the vedas and others. The Vedic hymns of creation, of praise, portraying incidents connected with some ancient Kings, may be taken as the nucleus from which Purana arose. The value of the Puranas cannot be minimized by calling their avowed theme, the presentation of the history of the Guptas up to the end of the 5th Century A. D. Altekar correctly stressed the importance of the Puranas a
