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The Shiva Purana

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The Shiva Purana is one of eighteen Purana genre of Sanskrit texts in Hinduism, and part of the Shaivism literature corpus. It primarily centers around the Hindu god Shiva and goddess Parvati, but references and reveres all gods. The Shiva Purana asserts that it once consisted of 100,000 verses set out in twelve samhitas (books), however the Purana adds that it was abridged by sage Vyasa before being taught to Romaharshana. The surviving manuscripts exist in many different versions and content,with one major version with seven books (traced to South India), another with six books, while the third version traced to the medieval Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent with no books but two large sections called Purva-khanda (previous section) and Uttara-khanda (later section).  The two versions that include books, title some of the books same and others differently.The Shiva Purana, like other Puranas in Hindu literature, was likely a living text, which was routinely edi...
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The Lakshmi puran

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The Lakshmi (Laxmi) Purana is a purana written in the 15th century by Balarama Dasa, a major poet of Odia literature who is often considered the senior most poet in the Age of Panchasakha. ​On 18 April 2019, Manabasa Gurubara has been added to the ‘National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of India’. ​In this Purana, once the Goddess Lakshmi visited Shriya, a scavenger low caste woman, for which Balarama, the elder brother of Jagannatha (Lord Krishna) got angry with Lakshmi, and she was turned out from Jagannatha Temple of Puri, one of the four most sacred place places of pilgrimage (Dham) of the Hindus. Lakshmi leaves the temple, and avenges the insult by cursing her husband and elder brother-in-law to go through a prolonged ordeal without food, water or shelter. ​It is perhaps the first attempt in Mughal empire dominated India towards feminism and against the casteism devolved from the ancient Varna system that doesn’t consider caste as a clan or lin...
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The Brahma Purana

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The Brahma Purana (Sanskrit: ब्रह्मपुराण or ब्राह्मपुराण; Brahma-purāṇa or Brāhma-purāṇa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas collections of Hindu texts in Sanskrit language.  It is listed as the first Maha-Purana in all the anthologies, and therefore also called Adi Purana.  Another title for this text is Saura Purana, because it includes many chapters related to Surya or the Sun god.The Brahma Purana is actually just a compilation of geographical Mahatmya (travel guides)and sections on diverse topics.   The extant Brahma Purana is likely different from the original one. R. C. Hazra concluded that it is not the real one, but an upapurana, which it was known as until the 16th century. Many of its verses are actually taken from the other Puranas. Moriz Winternitz concluded only a small part of it belongs to the older one. Since it mentions the existence of the Konark Sun Temple built in 1241, most of the chapter on pilgrimage sites in Orissa couldn...
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Sharad Purnima (also known as Kumara Purnima, Kojagiri Purnima,

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Sharad Purnima (also known as Kumara Purnima, Kojagiri Purnima,    Purnima is a harvest festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin (September to October), marking the end of the monsoon season. On this auspicious day, many divine pairs like Radha Krishna, Shiva Parvati, and Lakshmi Narayan are worshipped along with the moon and are offered flowers and kheer (sweet dish made of rice and milk). Deities in temples are usually dressed in white color signifying the brightness of moon. Many people observe full day fasting on this day. HinduSignificanceArrival of WintersCelebrationsWorshipping, Offering flowers and sweet dishes to deities, Dance (Raas/Garba)BeginsFull Moon day. This day is celebrated differently in different parts of the country. In Odisha, on this day unmarried women keep fast with the popular belief of getting their suitable groom(kumara). This festival starts with maidens welcoming the sun god just at s...
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