Tuesday, June 21, 2022

On the Similarity of Passages in the Vayu and Brahmanda Puranas

 

The translator of the Brahmanda Purana (MLBD) remarks in the footnotes that this Purana contains a number of verses and chapters common to the Vayu Purana which had led Kirfel (Purana Panca Laksana) to propose a theory of common origin of the Brahmanda Purana and the Vayu Purana. According to him, M. Ali, the writer of the Geography of the Puranas, had also been "misled" to believe that the geographical section of the Brahmanda Purana was a late copy of the Vayu Purana with slight alterations.

Brahmanda Purana


Vayu Purana


Brahmanda Purana


Vayu Purana



The translator of the Vayu Purana (MLBD) writes in the footnotes that the phrase “mahadadi visesanta” is popular with the Purana writers.

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