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Puranic - of or relating to the Purana

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As cultural bridges have been built between mainland Shaivism and Bodo traditions, Vaishnavism and Sankardev's heritage, bridges are being built between (Arunachal) Donyi-Polo and Puranic deities, (Meghalaya) Jaintia practices and Epic narratives.

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Drazen Puranic (1,2,3), Ena Rankovic (1), Marijo Vodanovic (1), Mario Lusic (4), Ana Boban (1,2), Silva Zupancic Salek (1,2,3) and Damir Nemet (1,2,3)

EXTENSIVE DEEP VENOUS THROMBOSIS IN A YOUNG MALE PATIENT AS THE FIRST MANIFESTATION OF A RARE VENOUS ANOMALY--INFERIOR VENA CAVA DUPLICATION: CASE REPORT

This seemingly relates to the development of caste varna, but of greater significance in the renditions of the myth in the two epics is the distinction they work out between the extreme, potentially violent/transgressive brahmin and the normal/mild brahmin, a distinction that proceeds through to puranic literature.

Crossing the Lines of Caste: Visvamitra and the Construction of Brahmin Power in Hindu Mythology

Their topics include the appropriation of the goddess into the Puranic narrative: integration/appropriation in the Vamanapurana, the Yaksini Devi of Mangaon: appropriation of a Jain goddess by Bhrahminic Hinduism, whether Ravidas and the Ganga represent appropriation or contestation, the goddess Chinnamasta's severed head as a re-appropriation of the cosmic sacrifice, from a Saktipitha to Kuladaivata: the appropriation of goddess Jogai of Ambe, and Ekveera Devi and the son Kolis of Mumbai: whether the Kilis appropriated the Karle Buddhist Chaitya.

Conceiving the Goddess: Transformation and Appropriation in Indic Religions

An understanding of the Puranic and Sramanic (Buddhist and Jaina) as well as poetic texts has to begin by relating them to their social functions and being aware of what is selected and what is left out.

The Past Before Us: Historical Traditions of Early North India

37) As we shall see later, the place-name Dvaravati or Dvaraka (the modern Dwarka), in western Gujarat, was considered the legendary capital of Lord Krsna in Indian epic and puranic literature.

Dvaravati and Zhenla in the seventh to eighth centuries: a transregional ritual complex

The sculptures and inscriptions show both Puranic (worship of Vedas) and Tantric (Sexual imagery) Hinduism.

Reality Premedia Released iOS and Android App for Khajuraho Temples

The temple houses an outstanding iconographic programme in its architecture, comprising scenes from the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavatapurana, along with several Puranic stories of Trivikrama, Shiva and Kama.

Indic epics in Khmer art: narrative reliefs of Baphuon: the narrative representations of the Ramayana and Mahabharata adorn several Khmer and Indian temples but Baphuon is aunique Khmer temple in its use and location

2) From the Mahabharata (and many other texts from the Puranic period, ca.

Master gears of anthropology: nature and culture

Rajasingham in his address said, Since from the days of Ramayana Sri Lanka remained as Sri Lanka - a sovereign state, but Puranic India remained in bits and pieces consisting of hundreds princely states and not as one India as today.

Subduing Sri Lanka was India's Main Concern

In literary-cultural terms, Naranappa's function in Samskara is comparable to the role played by the asuras (demons) in epic and Puranic lore.

Back to the future: tracking the moral imperative in, of, and through Samskara

He suggests that his hagiographies exemplify the tradition's view of history as a cosmological, teleological process that directs South Asian notions of Puranic time toward the life of Guru Nanak.