Origin and Growth of the Purāṇic Text Corpus: With Special Reference to the SkandapurāṇaHans Bakker The papers collected in this volume are the outcome of the Purana panel of the 12th world sanskrit conference held in Helsinki in July 2003 envisaged to explore departures from the original Purana texts. They mainly focus on the original Skandapurana which lends itself well to a study of the origins and growth of the Purana texts and the religious developments that they reflect. The sequence of the articles of this book has a purpose although each one of them can be read in itself also. The first part of Bakker`s contribution may be seen as a kind of introduction to the subject. The second part deals with a section of the text in which the differentiation into recension does not make much difference. The contributions of Torzsok and Harimoto focus on the transmission of the Purana and its development into different recensions. |
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A-satam A₁ A4 n/a SPBh additional adhyāyas ĀKh Ambikākhaṇḍa Andhaka Andhaka myth animal ash-bath avatāras ayatana Bhairava Bhairavotsava Bisschop boar boar incarnation Brahma Candesvara chapter colophon contents corrupt daityas demon-killing demons Dharmanibandha divine early Skandapurāṇa folio Gaṇa ganayuddhe Gaṇeśa gods Granoff holy hyparchetype ISk.mAKh SPBh ISp yuddhe ISPEAkh ISpRkh A A1 ISpRkh A1 ISSPE.mAkh ISSPEAkh A2 khandas Kokāmukha Kṛtyakalpataru Kubera Lakṣmīdhara linga Mahābhārata Mahākapāla Māhātmya major redaction Man-lion mentioned N A A4 Nepalese recension original pāda parallel passages Pārvatī Pasupata Pingala pond Prahlada prahlādanārāyaṇīye Prolegomena purāṇa Purāņas Puranic quotes RA recension reading Revā S₁ sage Śaiva Saivism Śakra samāptam samkaram saraṇadam śaraṇam Sanatkumāra Sarabha saraṇadam śaraṇam vrajāmi satam Śiva Śiva's Skanda SP vol SPRA śrī story tathā text corpus title no title tripuravadhe Udyana uvāca Vaiṣṇava Vārāṇasī variant verses Vinayaka Visņu volume Vyāsa yaḥ Yakṣa