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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…
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…
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…
Kirtan Ghosha
Sankardev's collection of Krishna songs in the Brajavali literary language, arranged in 26 sections, sung in the…
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…
Padma Purana
A large Vaishnava Purana cited here for the Vrinda-Tulsi story, the Murasura legend behind Vaikuntha Ekadashi and one…
Vishnu Purana
Six books, about 7,000 surviving verses, a dialogue of Parashara and Maitreya, dated anywhere from 400 BCE to 900 CE…