Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana鈥攐ne of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
Mythology
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At the present day worship is performed in honour
of Suraj Narayana.
All pious Hindus revere the rising Sun,
and he is invoked when the pilgrim bathes in the sacred
rivers and at other domestic rites.
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INDRA
Indra is the favourite national god of the vedic
Indians. He is celebrated in 250 hymns.
Asthe name,
which dates from the Indo-Iranian period and is of uncertain
meaning, does not designate any phenomenon of nature, the
figure of Indra has become very anthropomorphic and much
surrounded by mythological imagery, more so than that of any
other god in the veda. He is primarily the thunder-god, the
conquest of the demons of draught or darkness and the
consequent liberation of the waters or the winning of light
243 forming its mythological essence.
By the time of puranas, the importance of Indra
waned and in the Brahma-Purana he is a deity of secondary
importance constantly searching the help of either lord
Vismu, Siva, Brahma or some great sage in order to ensure
safely from the demons and other forces.
He has thousand eyes and a beautiful form. He
243 Macdonell, Vedic Mythology, P. 54.
