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Varaha Purana

Varaha Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas

Puranas

The Puranas are a group of important Hindu religious texts, notably consisting of narratives of the history of the Universe from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, and descriptions of Hindu cosmology, philosophy, and geography....
, a Hindu religious text. It describes in detail about the Varaha

Varaha

Varaha is the third Avatar of the Hinduism god Vishnu, in the form of a Boar. He appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a Rakshasha who had taken the Earth and carried it to the bottom of what is described as the cosmic ocean in the story....
incarnation (avatar

Avatar

Avatar or Avatara , often translated into English as incarnation, literally means descent and usually implies a deliberate descent from higher spiritual realms to lower realms of existence for special purposes....
) of Vishnu

Vishnu

Vishnu , , is the Supreme God in Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of panchadeva, and his supreme status is declared in the Hindu sacred texts like Yajurveda, the Rigveda and the Bhagavad Gita....
, and narrates about the rescue of the Prithvi

Prithvi

Prithvi is the Hinduism earth and mother goddess. According to one tradition, she is the personification of the Earth, and to another its Mother, being Prithivi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth....
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Varaha Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas

Puranas

The Puranas are a group of important Hindu religious texts, notably consisting of narratives of the history of the Universe from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes, sages, and demigods, and descriptions of Hindu cosmology, philosophy, and geography....
, a Hindu religious text. It describes in detail about the Varaha

Varaha

Varaha is the third Avatar of the Hinduism god Vishnu, in the form of a Boar. He appeared in order to defeat Hiranyaksha, a Rakshasha who had taken the Earth and carried it to the bottom of what is described as the cosmic ocean in the story....
incarnation (avatar

Avatar

Avatar or Avatara , often translated into English as incarnation, literally means descent and usually implies a deliberate descent from higher spiritual realms to lower realms of existence for special purposes....
) of Vishnu

Vishnu

Vishnu , , is the Supreme God in Vaishnavite tradition of Hinduism. Smarta followers of Adi Shankara, among others, venerate Vishnu as one of panchadeva, and his supreme status is declared in the Hindu sacred texts like Yajurveda, the Rigveda and the Bhagavad Gita....
, and narrates about the rescue of the Prithvi

Prithvi

Prithvi is the Hinduism earth and mother goddess. According to one tradition, she is the personification of the Earth, and to another its Mother, being Prithivi Tattwa, the essence of the element earth....
.

Contents

The printed editions of this work has 218 chapters.

Further reading

Mani, Vettam. Puranic Encyclopedia. 1st English ed. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975.

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