Question

The puranas contained stories about _______ ?
a. Common people
b. Gautam buddha
c. Mahatma gandhi
d. Gods and goddesses

Answer 1

Hint:
The word Purana literally means "ancient, old", and is a vast genre of Indian literature. All the major Puranas have sections on Devi (Devi) and Tantra. Six of these are the most important. The mythological part of the text weaves the stories of Shiva and Vishnu with Parvati, Rama, Krishna and others.


Complete solution:
 The Puranas in the sacred literature of Hinduism, none of the many popular encyclopaedic collections of myth, legend and genealogy differ greatly by date and origin.

The Puranas were written almost entirely in narrative couplets, in a very easy-flowing style as the two great Sanskrit epic poems, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. The early Puranas were probably compiled by upper-caste writers who appropriated popular beliefs and ideas from people of different castes. Later Puranas reveal the literal effects of local religious traditions and evidence of obsolescence.

Traditionally, a Purana states to treat the five disciplines, or "five traits": the primary creation of the universe, the secondary creation after periodic destruction, the lineage of gods and ancestry, the Manas (the first humans) Reign of, and history of the Solar and Lunar dynasties. Creation and dissolution (canto, "emission," and samara, "in assembly") occur when Prajapati, the creator of the Vedic age, emits and opens the universe, but everything is always in it, just alternatively Manifest (reveal) or hide (latent); Sarga kicks it out, and Samara pulls it back in.

The Puranas also treat various topics related to religious events that took place between about 400 and 1500 CE. Those additional subjects include customs, ceremonies, sacrifices, festivals, caste duties, donations, construction of temples and paintings and pilgrimage places. The genealogy of the gods, manus, and kings is an open-ended structure, in which individual authors put whatever they want to talk about (although some Puranas completely ignore the lineage). The primary concern for those writers is how to live a holy life and worship the gods. Such worship involves rituals (worship) that must be performed at home, in the temple, and on special festival days; Places to go on pilgrimage; Prayer to recite; And stories to tell and listen to. Significantly, all those rituals do not require the intercession of Brahmin priests.


Hence, the correct answer is option D.

Note:
 Traditionally there are 18 Puranas, but there are many different lists of 18, as well as some lists of more than 18 or more. The oldest Puranas, possibly composed between 350 and 750 AD, are Brahmaananda, Devi, Kurma, Markandeya, Matsya, Vamana, Varaha, Vayu and Vishnu. The next compositions are the compositions between 50 and 1000, Agni, Bhagavata, Bhavya, Brahma, Brahmavarta, Devibhagat, Garuda, Linga, Padma, Shiva and Skanda. Finally, the most recent, composed between 1000 and 1500, are Kalika, Kalki, Mahabhagat, Nardiya and Saura.