Associations to the word «Purana»
Noun
- Idol
- Prophecy
- Tale
- Cow
- Bengal
- Shah
- Fifth
- Birth
- Supremacy
- Philosophy
- Sb
- Garland
- Maya
- Philadelphia
- Ethic
- Descendant
- Origin
- Wendy
- Nepal
- Baba
- Inscription
- Praise
- Creation
- Meditation
- Para
- God
- Scroll
- Clan
- Poem
- Narrator
- Lord
- Dante
- Ruler
- Liberation
- Disciple
- Killing
- Sixty
- Analogy
- Hills
- Assign
- Version
- Bryant
- Astronomy
- Millennium
- Ancestor
- Say
- Preface
- Reign
- Chariot
- Ocean
- Variation
- Pradesh
- Poet
- Detail
- Serpent
- Snake
- Era
- Salvation
- Weber
- Century
- Account
Adjective
Wiktionary
PURANA, proper noun. (Hinduism) Name of an ancient Indian genre (or a group of related genres) of Hindu or Jain literature (as distinct from oral tradition). They are primarily post-Vedic texts containing a narrative of the history of the Universe, from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes and demigods, and descriptions of Hindu cosmology, philosophy and geography.
Dictionary definition
PURANA, noun. A body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.