Purana in a sentence

His body was laid to rest in Purana Quila initially, but because of attack by Hemu on Delhi and capture of Purana Qila, Humayun's body was exhumed by the fleeing army and transferred to Kalanaur in Punjab where Akbar was coronated.

Incidentally, the library, where he fell to his death is in the Purana Qila in Old Delhi.

The sculptures inside the temple depict scenes from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Bhagavata Purana.

The stretch between Metcalfe House and Purana Qila will undergo an aesthetic transformation as part of L-G VK SaxenaтАЩs directions, following his visit to the area.

The inaugural Republic Day parade in 1950, held at the Irwin Amphitheatre opposite the Purana Qila in the national capital, set the stage for a tradition that would evolve over the years.

The “valuable” Painted Grey Ware pottery sherds that sat in Swarnkar’s cupped palms are what the ASI hopes will be the key to a question that has baffled scholars, archaeologists and politicians alike – is Purana Qila the site of the city of Indraprastha?

BNG was excited when he encountered this Purana from the Mysore court, a most unusual bound volume, almost certainly part of a complete set which was vandalised and split up, as happened to much of Mysore royalty’s immensely rich cultural heritage.

Considered the leaders of terror genre in Hindi theatre throughout the 80s and 90s, the Ramsay Brothers made movies like Purana Mandir, Veerana, Do Gaz Zameen Ke Neeche, Band Darwaza, Purani Haveli, Andhera and Sabot.

In tradition, and in some scholarly writing, Indraprastha is identified with Delhi, specifically the area around Purana Qila.

Shyam Ramsay, who was considered the brain behind the group, directed films such as Darwaza, Purana Mandir and Veerana.

Three persons were arrested on charges of slaughtering cows in Purana Kasba locality under City Kotwali police station of Baghpat district on Monday, triggering tension in the area.

The first time she appears somewhere within the folds of Brahmanical Sanskritic tradition is perhaps the sixth century BCE in the text ‘Devi Mahatmya’ which is part of the Markandeya Purana, where she is depicted to be Goddess Durga’s fury incarnate.

According to the Brahmanda Purana, when Parashurama was a teenager, he expressed his desire to meet his paternal grandfather Richika.

According to the Garuda Purana, a soul after leaving the body travels through a very long and dark tunnel towards the South.

Despite the fact that the Vishnu Purana describes that Vishnu manifests as Brahma in order to create and as Rudra ( Shiva ) in order to destroy, citation Vaishnavism generally does not acknowledge the Trimurti concept.

For example, the Ganapati Purana was written for devotion to Ganapati (or Ganesh ).

He is well known for composing the Eknāthī Bhāgavat, a commentary on Bhagavat Purana and the devotional songs called Bharud. citation Mukteshwar translated the Mahabharata into Marathi; Tukaram (1608–49) transformed Marathi into a rich literary language.

Larson, p. 137. Bhagavata Purana elucidates the practice of a form of yoga called viraha (separation) bhakti.

Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (an incarnation of Lord Sri Krishna according to the Bhavishya Purana ) exhorted, "Krishna Naama Sankirtan" i.e. the constant chanting of the Krishna's name is the supreme healer in Kali Yuga.

Mahabharata and Vishnudharmotari Purana especially styles the Kambojas, Yavansa, Gandharas etc. as "Ashva.