Puranas
Puranas are a great treasure of our country. They expound profound thoughts in simple narration of past incidents. The central theme of all the puranas is the supremacy of Vishnu. There are 18 puranas available collectively known as Ashtadasha Mahapuranas. The author of all of these puranas is Bhagavan Vedavyasa himself. It is understood that the God's will is to teach the true purport of the Vedas only to eligible noble souls. Others are carefully misleaded and they never get hands on the true purport of the Vedas. Hence Bhagavan Vedavyasa, while composing these 18 Mahapuranas, has himself categorized them into three types viz. Satvika Puranas, Rajasa Puranas and Tamasa Puranas. While the Satvic puranas are verily valid, Rajasic puranas have some misleading statements also. The Tamasic puranas are predominant with misleading statements and are intended to mislead the ineligible from the truth.
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