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.
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fire.
Then Vayu merges Rupa, the characteristic quality of
Then akasa devours
fire and vayu pervades the whole world.
sparsa, the characteristic quality of vayu. Vayu becomes
tranquil and merely the akasa devoid of form, rasa, sparsa,
gandha, and form pervades the whole world. The quality of
akasa is sabda. Then the akasa merges the Bhutadis, the
Bhutadis merge Mahattattva and the mula prakrti merges Mahatta-
ttva and all other things (A.232).
Atyantika Lava:- One gets atyantika laya when one
attains the knowledge and detachment after suffering the troubles
arising from Adhyatmika, Adhibhautika and Adhidaivika condi-
tions. (233.1-3). Elsewhere too a description of Pralaya is
provided by the Br. P. (52,110).
Samsara
Having examined the various theories about the
creation and dissolution of the world let us now note down the
views about the worldly parlance or sansara.
The ideas about the worldly parlance are usually
pessimistic in nature. Thus it is said that the world is
very terrible, full of troubles and infatuating in nature
(228.4,5). It is compared to an ocean in which there are
crocodiles in the form of Raga, the water in it is made up of
