Purana's
There are eighteen main Puranas and an equal
number of subsidiary Puranas or Upa-Puranas.
The 18 main Puranas are: Vishnu Purana, Narada
Purana, Srimad Bhagavata Purana, Garuda (Suparna)
Purana, Padma Purana, Varaha Purana, Brahma Purana,
Brahmanda Purana, Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Markandeya
Purana, Bhavishya Purana, Vamana Purana, Matsya
Purana, Kurma Purana, Linga Purana, Siva Purana,
Skanda Purana (Kartika Purana) and Agni Purana.
The number of verses in each Purana is listed
in other verses of the Srimad-Bhagavatam (12.13.4-9):
The Brahma Purana consists of ten thousand verses,
the Padma Purana of fifty-five thousand, Sri
Visnu Purana of twenty-three thousand, the Siva
Purana of twenty-four thousand and Srimad-Bhagavatam
of eighteen thousand. The Narada Purana has twenty-five
thousand verses, the Markandeya Purana nine thousand,
the Agni purana fifteen thousand four hundred,
the Bhavisya Purana fourteen thousand five hundred,
the Brahma-vaivarta Purana eighteen thousand
and the Linga Purana eleven thousand . The Varaha
Purana contains twenty-four thousand verses,
the Skanda Puranas eight-one thousand one hundred,
the Vamana Purana fourteen thousand, the Garuda
Purana nineteen thousand and the Brahmanda Purana
twelve thousand. Thus the total number of verses
in all the Puranas is four hundred thousand.
Eighteen thousand of these, once again, belong
to the beautiful Bhagavatam..
The 18 Upa-Puranas are: Sanatkumara, Narasimha,
Brihannaradiya, Sivarahasya, Durvasa, Kapila,
Vamana, Bhargava, Varuna, Kalika, Samba, Nandi,
Surya, Parasara, Vasishtha, Devi Bhagavatam,
Ganesa and Hamsa.
Apart from these there are a few other other
puranas.
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