Puranas (also translated into puranas Purana,) is a kind of ancient Indian literature, is considered to be the ancient history, and India's ancient scripture, is ancient history, legends, myths and stories.Covering such literature has a very wide range of content, including cosmology, theogony, imperial lineage and religious activities.Many of the purana contain rich theory of religion and philosophy.These books mainly to Vishnu and shiva and the great brahma, they are all from the same author vyasa (broad) immortal, write a written in Sanskrit.

Puranas and India's big epic is given priority to with written history, both encyclopedia properties, in addition to the history of the ancient, also include law, medicine, its poetry, rhetoric, etc.Puranas a total of 18, the space length is differ, until modern also is the very popular several major purana.They are usually for poetry, written in the form of questions and answers;Its basic content is often linked to the different characters of some of the story.

According to the lotus puranas, the 18 puranas can be divided into three kinds of purana is:

, sorrow puranas (mainly to Brahma) : 1. The Vatican egg puranas (Brahma Purana);2. The brahma puranas (Brahm ā nda Purana);3. Turn the Vatican puranas (Brahma Vaivarta Purana);4. The Morgan DE and the puranas (M ā rkandeya Purana) (including important ode);5. The future puranas (Bhavishya Purana);6. The gnome puranas (V ā mana Purana);

, dark puranas (main worship Shiva) : 1. The Shiva Purana (Shiva Purana);2. The wind longing the book (the cut by the puranas) (V ā yu purana);3. Lin ogre puranas (Linga Purana);4. The room gandhara Purana (, publication of puranas) (Skanda Purana) 81000 praise;5. The fire longing the book (the jain, puranas) (Agni Purana);6. The fish puranas (Matsya Purana);7. The turtle puranas (K ū rma purana).

DE xi puranas (the main respect of Vishnu) : 1. The Vishnu Purana (Vishnu Purana) (Shreemad bhagawat), is mainly classic;2. The blessed one puranas (Bhagavata Purana);Is the most widely modern pop a purana.3. The radha Purana (N ā radeya Purana);4. The dapeng puranas (Garuda Purana);5. The lotus puranas (Padma · puranas) Padma Purana.6. The wild boar puranas (Varaha Purana).

The Puranas as 18 smaller Puranas (Upa - Puranas), the name list are as follows: Chang Tong Puranas, that 罗辛诃 purana, the bottom and the Puranas, - pull great chamber and the Puranas shiva, our garment Puranas, monkey color Puranas, manu Puranas, Mr That retinues purana and surya Puranas, Puranas, xi Puranas, destroy the Puranas, varuna Puranas, extremely abundant Puranas, thucydides Puranas, o good wave Puranas, Siva Puranas, goddess of the blessed one Puranas (Devi - Bhagavata).

"The goddess of the blessed one puranas," goddess "Devi" meaning, it is a worship of the goddess durga's writings.As durga is the center of the indians worship object, the puranas also becomes the basic books.

"Vishnu purana is divided into six parts, from which twists reflects the appearance of the ancient Indian society.Part 1 describes the origin and lineage narrative dynasty.Part 4 describes family and in the history of the legend.Part 5 emphatically introduces the embodiment of great god Vishnu () into the day dark background and performance.Part 6 wrote last days and the destruction of the world.The main idea of the book is to celebrate the great god Vishnu, propaganda faith Vishnu can be saved.

The blessed one purana mainly describe the great god Vishnu himself salvation for many times, as the fish, as the pig, is half man and half lion monsters, or the protagonist rama in the ramayana, or for "mahabharata" the hero of the dark, even into Buddhism JiaoZu Buddha.About 10 dark story, also see to the great benefit lineage and Vishnu purana.