Purans

All 18 Maha Puranas: Vishnu, Naradiya, Padma, Garuda, Varaha, Bhagavata, Matsya, Kurma, Linga, Shiva, Skanda, Agni, Brahmanda, Brahmavaivarta, Markandeya, Bhavishya, Vamana, and Brahma Purana etc. are mythological scriptures designed to give adequate wisdom to the Human beings for their Righteous living.

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Purana : It means an ancient or old literature particularly about legends and other traditional symbolic encyclopedias, Composed primarily in Sanskrit language, several of these texts are named after major Hindu deities such as Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma and Shakti. The Puranic genre of literature is found in Hinduism. It includes diverse topics such as cosmogony, cosmology, genealogies of gods, goddesses, kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, folk tales, pilgrimages, temples, medicine, astronomy, grammar, mineralogy, humor, love stories, as well as theology and philosophy. The Hindu Maha Puranas are traditionally attributed to "Sage Vyasa", but many scholars considered them likely the work of many authors over the centuries.

There is 1 Maha Puranas, 18 Mukhya Puranas (Major Puranas) and 18 Upa Puranas (Minor Puranas), with over 400,000 verses. The first versions of various Puranas were likely to have been composed between 3rd and 10th century CE. The Puranas do not enjoy the authority of a scripture in Hinduism, but are considered as Smritis. The Puranic literature wove with the Bhakti movement in India, and both Dvaita "duality" and Advaita "singularity"scholars have commented on the underlying Vedantic themes in the Maha Puranas.