Padma purana in english pdf series#
Thirty- nine volumes of the series including the present one have so far been published and others are in progress. The project of this series was envisaged in 1970 by the late Lala Sundar Lal Jam of Messrs. A number of fasts and vows are recommended and the merits of observing the same are described in detail. A good portion of this Part is also devoted to the glorification of Pukara as a sacred place of pilgrimage. A very amusing story appears in Chapter 13, of how Brhaspati, the preceptor of gods, impersonates Sukra, the preceptor of demons, and how he corrupts and demoralizes the latter by preaching heretical doctrines to them with a view to make the gods who were very often defeated by the demons in war, victorious over them. As the 'Contents' show, the reader will find herein and enjoy some very interesting accounts and stories, such as that of the churning of the ocean by the gods and demons, the destruction of Daksa's sacrifice by god Siva, the chopping-off of Brahma's fifth head by the same god, the drinking-up of the ocean by the sage Agastya and so on. Deshpande has given a brief Khanda wise summary of the Purana in his Introduction which appears in this volume. The Padma Purana takes its name after the Primordial Lotus from which god Brahma, the Creator, was born. The translation of the whole Purana is planned to run into as many as ten volumes of the present size and may take some years for its completion.
This Purana, as it appears in the Venkaesvara edition which this translation follows, consists of seven big sections or Khandas, namely, Srsti, Bhumi, Svarga, Brahma, Patala, Uttara and Kriyayogasara and is said to contain 55000 verses, though the actual number is much less.
It comprises the first thirty-three chapters of the first section called Srstikhanda or the Section on Creation of the Purana which is very huge in size. This is the first part of the Padma Purana in English translation and the thirty-ninth volume in the series on Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology.
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