The Skanda Purana

by G. V. Tagare | 1950 | 2,545,880 words

This page describes [Unkown title] which is chapter 48 of the English translation of the Skanda Purana, the largest of the eighteen Mahapuranas, preserving the ancient Indian society and Hindu traditions in an encyclopedic format, detailling on topics such as dharma (virtous lifestyle), cosmogony (creation of the universe), mythology (itihasa), genealogy (vamsha) etc. This is the forty-eighth chapter of the Avantikshetra-mahatmya of the Avantya-khanda of the Skanda Purana.