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It deals with a number of stories and gives detailed accounts of vratas (religious rites) and tirthas (places of pilgrimage). It also deals with several topics normally dealt with in the dharmasastras such as sraddha (obsequial rites), prayascittas (expiations), dana (giving gifts), images and their worship, narakas (hells) and so on.
Verses from this work have been extensively quoted in the dharmasastra treatises.
There are two recensions of this purana: the Gaudiya and the Daksinatya. They differ from each other in quite a few places.
Two episode of this purana the Madhurakhyana and the Naciketopakhyana are well-Known. The latter contains detailed descriptions of heaven and hell.
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