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पुराणानि - Puranas

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  • http://www.vedpuran.com presents special issues of Geetapress Gorakhpur's Kalyan magazines giving sankShipta Puranas and Veda.
    • Agni | Bhagvat | Bhavishya | Brahma | Brahmanda | Garuda | Kurma |
    • Ling | Markandya | Matsya | Narad | Narsimha | Padma |
    • Shiv | Skand Vaivatra | Vaman | Varah | Vishnu and
    • Atharvaveda | Rigveda | Samaveda | Yajurveda
  • A full-view purANa scanned books are available using Google book search with Free Google eBooks selection in Search Tools. The puranas available are Markandeya, Garuda, Brahmanda, Vayu, Varaha, Bhagavata.
  • The Hindi translation puranas are available for download at http://vedpuran.ne, and are also available at http://singhal.50webs.com/books.htm. For additional details,
    • agni, bhAgavat, : Gitapress. Only Hindi translation
    • bhavishya : kalyAN special
    • brahmANDa by Chamanlal Gautam Sanskrit and Hindi
    • brahmapurANa : sa.nkHhipta Gita press
    • devI bhAgavata Ramtej Pande Only Sanskrit
    • garuDa : kalyANa special
    • kalki Sanskrit Hindi
    • kUrma pUrva/uttarabhAga Gitapress Sanskrit Hindi
    • linga Only translation Ranadhir Prakashan
    • mArkaNDeya sa.nkShipta Gitapress
    • matsya 2 parts, Shriram Sharma Acharya Sanskrit Hindi
    • nArada sa.nkShipta Gitapress Hindi translation
    • narasi.nha complete Gitapress Sanskrit Hindi
    • padma sa.nkShipta
    • skanda kalyAN special
    • shiva translation
    • brahmavaivarta sa.nkShipta translation
    • vAmana Gitapress Sanskrit Hindi Not sure if it is complete
    • varAha sa.nkShipta Gitapress
    • viShNu (Parashara) Complete Sanskrit Hindi, shloka index
    • None of these have TOC except kalkI. Kalyan special are Gitapress but with translation and turning to sa.nkShipta.
  • Gita Press editions of Puranas are posted at one more place. There are 32 files. Puranas.
  • Bhagavata
  • Brahma Purana Sanskrit Text
  • Sanskrit texts from Vedic Engineering (Paid CDs)
  • All 18 Puranas
    • Many Purana texts are available as scanned books at Digital Library of India. There are four databases available at Bangalore http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/, Delhi/Noida http://www.dli.cdacnoida.in/, Pittsburg Carnegie Mellon University, USA http://tera-2.ul.cs.cmu.edu/, Hyderabad IIIT http://dli.iiit.ac.in/. Get used to the search engine, install AlternateTIFF viewer, and browse through many rare books.
    • Vedic Reserve of Maharshi Mahesh Yogi University of Management (MUM) has following formatted PDF files.
      • Brahma Purana 3.33 MBytes
      • Padma Puranam - Sristhi Khandam 2.3MB
      • Padma Puranam - Bhumi Khandam 1.4MB
      • Padma Puranam - Svarga Khandam 678KB
      • Padma Puranam - Brahma Khandam 269KB
      • Padma Puranam - Patala Khandam 1.9MB
      • Padma Puranam - Uttara Khandam 3.1MB
      • Padma Puranam - Kriya Khandam 686KB
      • Vishnu Purana 1.4 MB
      • Shiva Purana 1-100 3.0MB
      • Shiva Purana 101-200 4.25MB
      • Shiva Purana 201-300 4.3MB
      • Shiva Purana 301-400 4.2MB
      • Shiva Purana 401-end of volume 1 4.3MB
      • Shiva Purana Vol. 2, 1-100 4.9MB
      • Shiva Purana Vol. 2, 101-200 4.8MB
      • Shiva Purana Vol. 2, 201-300 4.5MB
      • Shiva Purana Vol. 2, 301-400 4.5MB
      • Shiva Purana Vol. 2, 401-end 4.4MB
      • Shrimad Bhagavata Mahapurana 3.6 MB
      • Narada Puranam - Purva Bhagam 2.8MB
      • Narada Puranam - Uttara Bhagam 1.2MB
      • Markandeya Purana 1-100 3.4MB
      • Markandeya Purana 101-200 3.4MB
      • Markandeya Purana 201-300 3.7MB
      • Markandeya Purana 301-400 3.6MB
      • Markandeya Purana 401-500 3.4MB
      • Markandeya Purana 501-600 3.1MB
      • Markandeya Purana 601-660 1.8MB
      • Agni Purana 2.1 MB
      • Bhavishya Purana
      • Brahma Vaivarta 1-100 6.9MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 101-200 6.8MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 201-300 6.8MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 301-400 6.6MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 401-500 6.6MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 501-600 6.3MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 601-700 6.2MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 701-800 6.4MB
      • Brahma Vaivarta 801-end 4.0MB
      • Varaha Purana
      • Linga Puranam
      • Skanda Purana page
      • Vamana Purana 1-100 9.7MB
      • Vamana Purana 101-200 9.6MB
      • Vamana Purana 201-300 9.9MB
      • Vamana Purana 301-400 10.2MB
      • Vamana Purana 401-500 10.5MB
      • Vamana Purana 501-600 10.6MB
      • Vamana Purana 601-end 9.1MB
      • Matsya Purana
      • Garuda Purana
      • Brahmanda Purana Part 1
      • Kurma Puranam 16.0MB
      • upapurANa
        • Narasimhia Purana 893 KB
        • Vishnudharma 1.06 MB
        • Nandi Purana 1.05 MB
        • Saura Purana 896 KB
        • Kapila Purana 291 KB
        • Nilamata Purana 362 KB
        • Devi Bhagavata Purana 46.3 MB
        • Parashara Purana 266KB
        • Samba Purana 715KB
        • Narasimha Purana 893 KB
        • Saura Purana 896 KB
        • Nilamata Purana 362 KB
        • Kapila Purana 291 KB
        • Devi Bhagavata Purana 46 MB
        • Vishnudharma 1.06 MB
    • GRETIL collection includes following Puranas in REE, CSA, and unicode/Roman format
      • Agni-Purana [BI-ed.]
      • Bhagavata-Purana
      • Bhagavata-Purana
      • Brahma-Purana
      • Brahmanda-Purana
      • Devibhagavata-Purana: Devigita
      • Garuda-Purana
      • Kurma-Purana
      • Linga-Purana
      • Markandeya-Purana, Adhy. 1-93 [to be continued]
      • Matsya-Purana, Adhyayas 1-176
      • Narada-Purana
      • Siva-Purana
      • Skanda-Purana, Adhy. 1 - 31.14
      • Skanda-Purana, Revakhanda
      • Vamana-Purana Adhyayas 1-69
      • Vayu-Purana, Revakhanda [wrongly incorporated into the Skanda-Purana]
      • Visnudharmottara-Purana, Adhy. 2,127: Atharvavidhikathana [=Atharvavidhana]
      • Visnudharmottara-Purana, Adhy. 3,343-353
      • Visnu-Purana
    • Various hypertexts/encoded texts at Rashtriya Sanskrit Pratishthan, Tirupati has following Puranas, among other texts such Agama, Dharma Sastras, General, Grhya Sutra, Jyotisha, Koshas, Mimamsa, Nyaya, Puranam, Sahityam, Upanishads, Vedas, Vedanta, Vyakarana, Sankhya Darshanam. A mirror is available at wilbourhall.org
      • Agnipuranam
      • Brahmapurnam
      • Srimarkandeyapuranam
      • Vishnupuranam
      • Lingamahapuranam
      • Kurmapuranam
      • Naradamahapuranam
      • Brahmandapuranam
      • Vamanapuranam
      • Garudamahapuranam
      • Vamanapuranam
    • Puranas and other Sanskrit texts at sa.wikisource.org. A collection is getting built up of Purana Unicode texts in these pages. The unavailable adhyAyas are marked with red.
    • Vaishnava Puranas, scanned books at vishnudut1926.blogspot.com.
      • 1. "SHREEMAD BHAGAVATAM", Skandhas 001-012 (presumably "Gita Press"), Sanskrit-English - scanned book
      • 2. "THE BHAGAVATA PURANA", All 5 Volumes in English (Motilal Banasirdass 1950-1955 editions) - scanned book
      • 3. "SHREE NARADA-PURANA", FULL SET (All 5 Volumes in English), Motilal Banasirdass, 1952-1997 - scanned book
      • 4. "SKANDA PURANA", Book 002, VISHNU KHANDA, "SHREE VENKATACHALA MAHATMYA", English, Motilal Banasirdass, 1951 - scanned book
      • 5. "SHREE VISHNU-PURANA", complete English edition (5 Volumes), H.H. Wilson - scanned book
      • 6. "VASUDEV MAHATMYAM", English-Sanskrit published by Mahant Purani Swami Dharmnandan Dasji, Shree SwamiNarayan Temple Bhuj - scanned book
      • 7. "GARUDA-PURANA", Engish translation by M.N.Dutt, Calcutta, 1908, 800 pages, including The Brihaspati Samhita and The Dhanvantari Samhita - scanned book
      • 8. "SHREE VARAHA-PURANA", 2 Volumes, Motilal Banasirdass, 2003 - scanned book
      • 9. "SHREE PADMA-PURANA", Motilal Banasirdass, 2004, Volumes 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 - scanned book
      • 10. "RAMAYANA OF VALMIKI" translated by Hari Prasad Shastri, ENGLISH, 1952 (1709 PAGES) - scanned book
      • 11. "RAM-CHARITA-MANAS" (the Ramayana of Goswami Tulasidas), Gita Press - scanned book
      • 12. "PURANIC ENCYCLOPAEDIA", 1921, Motilal Banarsidass - scanned book
      • 13. "AGNI PURANA" Parts 1,2 (Chapters 001-383, pages 0001-1183), ENG, Motilal Banasirdass, 1998-2003 - scanned book
      • 15. "SHREE BRAHMANDA PURANA", Parts 002, 003, 005, English, Motilal Banasirdass 2002, 1992, 1999 - scanned book
    • A list of available editions of Purana is compiled at http://www.veda.harekrsna.cz/encyclopedia/puraned.htm among other useful information. It has a long list of Mahapuranas: available editions and translations Reference: Ludo Rocher: The Puranas. A History of Indian Literature, Vol. 2, Fasc. 3. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1986. ISBN 3-447-02522-0
    • Purana Khanda (page 160 to 450) of following book listing in Digital Library of India gives detailed contents of all important Puranas in 23 chapters.
      hindutva., 99999990008675. gaur, ramdas. 1995. english. hinduism. 874 pgs.
      hindutav., 99999990000769. goid,ram das. 1995. hindi. devotional. 951 pgs.
    • Table of Contents (TOC) of many Puranas are given below. It will be very useful to type them for easy searching. Need volunteers.
    • Geeta Press Kalyan specials on Purana at scribd/AUM Tat Sat.
    • http://www.urday.com/
    • Encylopaedic information.
    • Synopsis of 16 Puranas.
    • Complete Puranic Subject Index compiled and prepared by Radha Gupta, Suman Agarwal, and Vipin Kumar is available at google docs, or collected three parts 1, 2, and 3.
  • Agni Purana
  • shiva Purana
  • garuDapurANa : Sanskrit text with Gujarati translation written in Devanagari.

  • Garuda Purana Audio clips on https://www.pocketfm.in. It also has downlodable audio of Garuda Purana, Shiv Puran, Bhagavata Purana, Bhavishya Puran, Kautilya Arthashastra, Chanakya Neeti, Yatharth Geeta, Bhagwat Geeta, Vishnu Puran, Chanakya, Atharva Veda, Bhagavad Gita, and other podcasts/texts (mostly in Hindi). The audio clips are also presented through PocketFM App.

  • English translation of Ernest Wood and S.V. Subrahmanyam
  • Complete English translations of Puranas are listed in the hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions. The person who has posted the answers has compiled most of these from West Bengal Dspace which is frequently down.
  • A chapterwise posting of all 18 main Puranas with Sanskrit and English meanings is done at https://www.hinduscriptures.in/scriptures/puranas-18-puranas-mahapurana. The site presents comprehensive collection of Hindu literature.
             Puranas (18 Puranas) - Mahapurana
                 Agni
                 Bhavisya Mahapuranam
                 Brahmanda Mahapuranam
                 Brahmavaivarta Purana
                 Garud Puran
                 Kurma Mahapurana
                 Linga Mahapurana
                 Markandeya Purana
                 Matsya Mahapurana
                 Naradiya Mahapuranam
                 NARASIMHA-PURANAM
                 Shrimad Bhagwad
                 Siva Mahapurana
                 Skanda Mahapuranam
                 Skanda-Purana
                 The Brahmanda Purana
                 The Varaha Purana
                 Vamana Purana
                 Vayu Mahapurana
                 Visnu Purana
    
    The Upapuranas are listed in https://www.hinduscriptures.in/scriptures/upa-purana
  • http://www.vedpuran.com/
  • http://www.garudapuran.com/
  • Nilamata Purana
  • Bhavishya Purana
  • kalki purANa on archive.org edited by Jibananda Vidyasagara.
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