![]() ![]() ![]() Other scholars suggest that the earliest core of the text may be from the first centuries of the common era, and additional chapters were added thereafter through the sixth century or later. Leadbeater states that the text is likely from about 900 CE, given that it includes chapters on Yoga and Tantra techniques that likely developed later. place the first version of the text only between the fourth century CE and the eleventh century. 3.2 Worship of Vishnu, Lakshmi, Shiva, Surya, Ganesha, Durga and othersĪccording to Pintchman, the text was composed sometime in the first millennium of the common era, but it was likely compiled and changed over a long period of time.The text, like all Mahapuranas, is attributed to sage Veda Vyāsa in the Hindu tradition. The Padma Purana categorizes the Purana, along with itself, Bhagavata Purana and Vishnu Purana, as a Sattva Purana (a purana which represents goodness and purity). The final chapters discuss how to practice Yoga (Samkhya and Advaita types), personal development and the benefits of self-knowledge. The text contains cosmology, mythology, relationship between gods, ethics, good versus evil, various schools of Hindu philosophies, the theory of Yoga, the theory of "heaven and hell" with "karma and rebirth", ancestral rites and soteriology, rivers and geography, types of minerals and stones, testing methods for gems for their quality, listing of plants and herbs, various diseases and their symptoms, various medicines, aphrodisiacs, prophylactics, Hindu calendar and its basis, astronomy, moon, planets, astrology, architecture, building home, essential features of a Hindu temple, rites of passage, charity and gift making, economy, thrift, duties of a king, politics, state officials and their roles and how to appoint them, genre of literature, rules of grammar, and other topics. Its chapters encyclopedically deal with a highly diverse collection of topics. The Garuda Purana text is known in many versions, contains 15000+ verses. The earliest version of the text may have been composed in the first millennium BCE, but it was likely expanded and changed over a long period of time. ![]() ![]() Composed in Sanskrit and also available in various languages like Gujarati and English. It is a part of Vaishnavism literature corpus, primarily centering around Hindu god Vishnu. The Garuda Purana is one of 18 Mahāpurāṇa texts in Hinduism. ![]()
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