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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(104) Bhanu
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M
This mountain was as high as the
mountain Meru (118.4).
T The snana done here brings success
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(168.1,14,38). The Panchvata hermitage was situated here
(89,44) (138.1,39).
(105) Bharadvaji
(173.4).
S
R It is a part of Ganga
(106) Bharata I - (25.71).
(107) Bharatavarsa -
bhumi (70.24), (54.3), (18.17).
(70.21). It is Karma-
It is situated to the south
of Himalaya and to the north of the sea (19.1). Its area is
9,000 yojanas (19.2). It has seven mountains (19.3). Bharata
is the best place in Jambudvipa (19.23), (27.2,9,19). It has
nine divisions (27.14). It has nine samsthanas. To its
south and east lies the great ocean and to its north is the
great Himalaya (27.65-66). This is the ninth continent in
the whole world. It is surrounded by ocean. Its area is
1000 yojanas from north to south (27.15,16).
It has seven
mountains, viz. Mahendra, Malaya, Sahya, Suktiman, Rksa,
Vindhya and Pariyatra. There are thousands of other
mountains near it. The boundaries are beautiful, wide and
citrasanu. There are hundreds of other mountains (27.21-24).
