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Bhagavata Purana
Srimad Bhagavatam
The central Vaishnava Purana; cantos cited here: 3.20 (navel lotus), 7.4–10 (Prahlada), 8.5–12 (churning, Lakshmi's…
Skanda Purana
The largest Purana; its Purushottama Kshetra Mahatmya is the founding story of Puri and its Panduranga Mahatmya one of…
Rigveda
The oldest Vedic collection; Vishnu has five of its 1,028 hymns and appears as the three-striding friend of Indra; the…
Brahmavaivarta Purana
Purana whose Ganesha birth has Vishnu promise to be born as Parvati's son, Shani's glance take the child's head and…
Ekamra Purana
Thirteenth-century Sanskrit treatise that is the charter of Bhubaneswar as Ekamra Kshetra. Stub entity.
Harivamsa Purana (Jinasena)
Jain Harivamsa
Jinasena's Sanskrit poem of 783 CE in 66 cantos, centred on the Tirthankara Neminatha with Krishna as his cousin and a…
Kalika Purana
Shakta Purana of the east that tells Ardhanarishvara's origin through Parvati's jealousy of her own reflection. Stub…
Kamba Ramayanam
Ramavataram · Kamban's Ramayana
Kamban's 12th-century Tamil epic of Rama, in which Rama is divine from the start yet never claims to be Vishnu's…
Kanda Puranam
Kachiyappa Sivachariar's Tamil Skanda epic (given as seventeenth century on the fetched page), in which Kartikeya is…
Kiratarjuniya
Bharavi's sixth-century Sanskrit court epic in eighteen cantos on Arjuna's duel with Shiva the hunter. Stub entity.
Kirtan Ghosha
Sankardev's collection of Krishna songs in the Brajavali literary language, arranged in 26 sections, sung in the…
Kumarasambhava
Kalidasa's fifth-century court epic on Parvati's austerity, Kama's burning, the wedding and the conception of Kumara…
Linga Purana
Shaiva Purana that ties the pillar of light to Maha Shivaratri and gives its own accounts of Ganesha's making and…
Mahabharata
The great epic; its Vana, Shalya and Anushasana Parvas tell Kartikeya's birth, the Vana Parva the hunter's duel with…
Manasamangal Kavya
Manasa Mangal
The oldest of the Bengali mangalkavya poems, composed in several recensions from the 13th century on, telling how…
Matsya Purana
Purana holding the earliest developed form of Kama's burning (chapters 227–255 per Wikipedia), a Ganesha birth from…
Naalayira Divya Prabandham
Tamil Veda · Divya Prabandham
The four thousand Tamil verses of the Alvars, compiled by Nathamuni; 247 of them praise Srirangam, more than any other…
Nepal Mahatmya
Section of the Skanda Purana that tells Pashupatinath's deer and bull legends together with the Himavat Khanda. Stub…
Nilamata Purana
Sixth- to seventh-century Kashmiri text that names Amareshvara, the earliest reference to the Amarnath shrine. Stub…
Padma Purana
A large Vaishnava Purana cited here for the Vrinda-Tulsi story, the Murasura legend behind Vaikuntha Ekadashi and one…
Paumachariya
Jain Ramayana · Paumacariya · Padmacharita
Vimalasuri's Jain Ramayana in Maharashtri Prakrit, the earliest surviving Jain telling of Rama, in which Rama is the…
Periya Puranam
Sekkizhar's twelfth-century Tamil lives of the sixty-three Nayanars, the source for Kannappa. Stub entity.
Ramakien
Thailand's national Rama epic, compiled under King Rama I between 1799 and 1807, in which Phra Ram is an incarnation of…
Reamker
Ramakerti
The Khmer Rama epic in Middle Khmer verse (16th–18th c.), which keeps Preah Ream as Vishnu's incarnation but treats him…
Shatapatha Brahmana
Ritual exegesis of the White Yajurveda; its 1.2.5 tells of Vishnu as the sacrifice in dwarf form winning the earth for…
Shiva Purana
The great Shaiva Purana in the printed seven-samhita recension (Vidyeshvara, Rudra with its Srishti, Sati, Parvati…
Shivayan
Shibayan · Shivayana
Rameswar Bhattacharya's mid-18th-century Bengali poem on Shiva as a poor rural householder, with the stock episode of…
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
Krishna Yajurveda Upanishad of six chapters, dated by Olivelle to the last centuries BCE, where Rudra is first raised…
Tevaram
The Tamil hymns of Sambandar, Appar and Sundarar, the first seven Tirumurai, which sing Ravana's music under Kailash…
Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Tiruvilaiyatal Puranam · The 64 sacred games
Paranjothi Munivar's Tamil Shaiva text narrating sixty-four playful miracles of Shiva as Sundareswarar in Madurai…
Tiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Thiruvilaiyadal Puranam
Paranjothi Munivar's Tamil account of Shiva's sixty-four sacred games at Madurai in three cantos, revered with the…
Valmiki Ramayana
The epic whose Bala Kanda tells Ganga's descent and makes her Himavat's daughter, whose Uttara Kanda has Ravana lift…
Vamana Purana
Purana giving a softer Shiva in the Kama story, Parvati's hundred forms and the Matrikas' names in the Andhaka story…
Vishnu Purana
Six books, about 7,000 surviving verses, a dialogue of Parashara and Maitreya, dated anywhere from 400 BCE to 900 CE…