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The Vayu Purana is a Shaiva Purana, a Hindu religious text, dedicated to the god Vayu
Vayu

In Hinduism Vayu is a primary deity, the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman. He is also known as Vata ???, Pavana ??? , or Prana....
 (the wind god), containing about 24,000 shloka
Shloka

A Sanskrit term shloka specifically denotes a metered and often rhymed poetic verse or phrase. Shloka is the chief metre used in the Epics.It also connotes and has come to mean a proverb and a form of prayer throughout Indian religions having arisen in the Vedas....
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Banabhatta

Ba?abha??a also known as Ba?a was a Sanskrit language scholar and poet of India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harshavardhana, who reigned in the years c....
 refers to this work in his Kadambari and Harshacharita. In the Harshacharita he says that this text was read out to him in his native village

Alberuni (973 -1048), the noted Persian
Persian people

Persian identity, at least in terms of language, is traced to the ancient Indo-Iranians , who arrived in parts of Greater Iran circa 2000-1500 BCE....
 scholar, describes 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....
 in his works and Vayu Purana is said to have ranked as a sacred scripture, even prior to 600 AD .

extant text is divided into four pada
Pada

Pada may refer to:* Pada , the foot* Sri Pada, or Adam's Peak, a mountain in Sri Lanka* Pada River, see List of rivers of Estonia...
s (parts): Prakriya-pada (chapters 1-6), Anushanga-pada (chapters 7-64), Upodghata-pada (chapter 65-99) and Upasamhara-pada (chapters 100-112).






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The Vayu Purana is a Shaiva Purana, a Hindu religious text, dedicated to the god Vayu
Vayu

In Hinduism Vayu is a primary deity, the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman. He is also known as Vata ???, Pavana ??? , or Prana....
 (the wind god), containing about 24,000 shloka
Shloka

A Sanskrit term shloka specifically denotes a metered and often rhymed poetic verse or phrase. Shloka is the chief metre used in the Epics.It also connotes and has come to mean a proverb and a form of prayer throughout Indian religions having arisen in the Vedas....
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Banabhatta
Banabhatta

Ba?abha??a also known as Ba?a was a Sanskrit language scholar and poet of India. He was the Asthana Kavi in the court of King Harshavardhana, who reigned in the years c....
 refers to this work in his Kadambari and Harshacharita. In the Harshacharita he says that this text was read out to him in his native village

Alberuni (973 -1048), the noted Persian
Persian people

Persian identity, at least in terms of language, is traced to the ancient Indo-Iranians , who arrived in parts of Greater Iran circa 2000-1500 BCE....
 scholar, describes 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....
 in his works and Vayu Purana is said to have ranked as a sacred scripture, even prior to 600 AD .

Contents

The extant text is divided into four pada
Pada

Pada may refer to:* Pada , the foot* Sri Pada, or Adam's Peak, a mountain in Sri Lanka* Pada River, see List of rivers of Estonia...
s (parts): Prakriya-pada (chapters 1-6), Anushanga-pada (chapters 7-64), Upodghata-pada (chapter 65-99) and Upasamhara-pada (chapters 100-112). The Gayamahatmya (chapters 105-112), praising the Gaya
Gaya

Gaya may refer to:*Gaya Confederacy, an ancient Korean league of statelets*Gaya District, India*Gaya, India, a city in India*Gaya, Niger, a city in Niger...
 tirtha
Tirtha

A tirtha is a pilgrimage site. Literally, the Sanskrit term tirtha means a Ford , a shallow part of a body of water that may be easily crossed....
 in Magadha
Magadha

Magadha formed one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas or Kingdoms of Ancient India. The core of the kingdom was the area of Bihar south of the Ganges; its first capital was Rajagaha then Pataliputra ....
 is not found in all the manuscripts of this work and also found sepaarately as an independent work.

The Vayu Purana deals with the following topics: creation and re-creation of the universe; measurement of the Kala (time); Origin of Agni
Agni

Agni is a Hindu and Rigvedic deities. The word agni is Sanskrit for "fire" , cognate with Latin ignis , Russian ????? , Polish "ogien," Lithuanian - ugnis - all with the meaning 'fire' -, with the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European root being h1?gni-....
, Varuna
Varuna

In Historical Vedic religion, Varuna or Waruna is a god of the sky, of waters and of the celestial ocean, as well as a god of law and of the underworld....
 and a number of gods; origin and descendants of Atri
Atri

Attri and Atri is the one and same thingIn Hinduism, Attri is a legendary bard and scholar, and a son of Brahma , and one of the Saptarishis in the seventh, i.e the present Manvantara .....
, Bhrigu, Angiras and some other sages, daityas, rakshasas, gandharvas and pitrs; origin of animals, birds, trees and creepers; genealogies of the ancient kings descended from Vaivasvata Manu and Ila and the kings of Kaliyuga ending with the Gupta dynasty; detailed geography of the earth divided into seven dvipa
Dvipa

In Indian mythology, dvipa is the term for the major divisions of the terrestrial sphere, sometimes translated as "continents" or "planets".There are either 7, 4or 13 or 18 dvipas....
s and further sub-divided into the varshas; accounts of inhabitants of different dvipas; names and descritption of the seven Patalas (netherworlds); description of the solar system and the movements of the celestial bodies; description of the four yuga
Yuga

Yuga in Hindu philosophy is the name of an 'epoch' or 'era' within a cycle of four ages. These are the Satya Yuga , the Treta Yuga, the Dvapara Yuga and finally the Kali Yuga....
s and fourteen manvantara
Manvantara

Manvantara or Manuvantara , or age of a Manu , the Hindu progenitor of mankind, is an astronomical period of time measurement. Manvantara is a Sanskrit Sandhi, a combination of words manu and antara, manu-antara or manvantara, literally meaning the duration of a Manu, or his life span ....
s. It also contains chapters on music, various shakhas of the Vedas, Pashupata-yoga, duties of the people belong to different castes and funeral rites.

Further reading

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

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