श्रीवराहमहापुराणम्- The Varaha Maha Puranam

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Introduction The Varaha-Purana is twelfth in the list of the Puranas, It is narrated by Vi~Qu as Varaha, or the boar incarnation, to the personified Earth. It is a religious manual almost wholly occupied with the forms of prayer and tales for devotional observances, addressed to Visnu; interspersed with legendary illustrations, most of which are peculiar to itself. Many of them, rather incompatibly with general scope of the compilation relate to the history of Siva and Durga. A considerable .portion of the work is devoted to descriptions of various sacred places of Vaisnava pilgrimage and one of Mathura enters into a variety of particulars relating to the shrines of that city, constituting the Mathura Mahatmya. In the sectarianism of the Varaha-Purana, there is no leaning to the particular adoration of Kr~tla nor are the Ratha-yatra and Janmastami included amongst the observances. Here great stress is laid upon the accounts of Svarga and Naraka. But this episode does not possess the spiritual aspect of the Kathopanisad.

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