Puranas : constitute, according to the Upanishads, the fifth Veda; the Smṛti considers them commentaries on the Vedas. Traditionally a Purana treats five subjects: cosmogony, cosmology, cosmic cycles, gods & sages, & the principal human dynasties or rather lines of human development. They mix facts, tradition, psychic experiences as well as history in a poetic format, explained Sri Aurobindo in talks with disciples, does it matter, for instance, whether the personality it describes lived on the physical plane or not? The poet may be writing from a knowledge gained on the psychic or intuitive planes or from any other planes. Of those surviving, eighteen are major & eighteen ūpa-purana or minor ones.
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