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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