What are Puranas?

Puranas are the ancient genre of Indian literature which describes the different mythological topics, traditional lore, and legends about the genealogies of kings, deities, sages, heroes, demigods, temples, astronomy, humor, etc.  There are 18 Maha (great) Puranas namely:- 


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