Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana—one of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
Mythology
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CHAPTER VI MYTHOLOGY NE ARGO Sed tame the weak anak dat a song 470 The vedic religion is based upon the conception
of nature-worship.
At first the god is hardly differentiated
from the physical phenomena which it represents and slowly
clothed with moral attributes and endowed with a character
wholly divine can be traced. Thus we see the Dyaus as the
broad bright sky; the Maruts, the deities of the storm; Indra,
the god of the rain-cloud, who became the mighty warrior and
champion of heaven and Agni the god of fire later on getting
an individual and abstract existence.
Lack of individuality is conspicuous in vedic gods.
Thus Dawn, Sun, Firem, have the common features of being
luminous, dispelling darkness and appearing in the morning
and thus it becomes difficult to define the characteristics
