Vedas were composed 3,000 years ago, while the Puranas were composed 1,500 years ago. In between, came the great epics, Ramayana and Mahabharata, after the Vedas, but before the Puranas. The two ...

Religious belief and identity are almost a calling card in India today. Sanatan Dharma (like all other religions) is vast and mystical, such that exhaustive knowledge of its foundational texts is ...

Shri Vishnu Puran (Photo Credit: Twitter@VertigoWarrior) Known to be the oldest known Vedic Sanskrit text, the Rigveda is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns.

The Puranas provide solutions to the major riddles of mundane life by describing how the world was created and who created it. The Puranas contain myths and genealogies, written in a flowing form like ...