Puranas Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Puranas.
Top Quotes
“Mahabharata”
“Age of Aquarius”
“The Atharvaveda and the Itihasa-Veda are also Vedas.”
“The (hymns of the) Atharvangiras are the bees, the Itihasa-Purana is the flower.”
“Wikipedia: Puranas”
“There is actual mention in the Samhita and Brahmana literature of a work called Purana.”
“Wiktionary: Puranas”
“All 18 Major Puranas (pdf)”
“The Vishnu Purana English translation by H. H. Wilson, 1840”
“The Garuda Purana English translation by M. N. Dutt, 1908”
“The Brahma Purana English translation by G. P. Bhatt, 1955”
“The Markandeya Purana English translation by F. E. Pargiter, 1904”
“Vyasa is the compiler of the Puranas from age to age; and for this age, he is Krishna-Dvaipayana, the son of Parasara.”
“They alone contain something like a continuous historical narrative, and it is absurd to suppose that the elaborate royal genealogies were all merely figments of imagination or a tissue of falsehoods.”
“The Puranas, the Tantras, and all the other books, even the Vyasa Sutras, are of secondary, or tertiary authority, but primary are the Vedas.”
“There is nothing in them (Puranic accounts), as far as I am aware, really inconsistent with the most ancient book we possess, namely, the Rigveda, and they throw much light thereon, and on all problems concerning ancient India.”
“The Srimad Bhagavatam is the very essence of all the Vedanta literature. One who has enjoyed the nectar of its rasa never has any desire for anything else.”
“One who visits Ayodhya the way enjoined sheds all one’s sins and finds one’s abode in the House of Hari (Hari-mandira). Likewise, ‘for one who takes bath in the Svargadvara and visits the Rama temple (Ramalaya) nothing remains to be done here and he has fulfilled his duty.”
“It is a primary text of the Vaishnava branch of Hinduism, and one of the Cnanonical puranas of the Visnhu Category. Among the portions of interest are a cycle of legends of the boyhood deeds of Krishna and Rama.”
“In Puranas, the supreme truth is made known to one and all, including ordinary men, in a very simple manner....There are many Puranas. It is believed that there were approximately 64 Puranas consisting of 18 Mahapuranas, 18 primary Upa Puranas and the rest secondary Upa Puranas.”