मार्कण्डेयपुराण

{ mārkaṇḍeyapurāṇa }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

MĀRKAṆḌEYAPURĀṆA   One of the eighteen Purāṇas. The number of granthas in it is ninethousand. It contains a critical study of Dharma and Adharma. It is considered to be very good to give this Purāṇa as gift on the full-moon day in the month of Kārttika (November). [Chapter 272, Agni Purāṇa] .

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A Sanskrit English Dictionary

मार्कण्डेय—पुराण  n.  n. N. of one of the 18 पुराणs (so called from its supposed author M°; it expounds the nature of कृष्ण and explains some of the incidents of the महा-भारत; it differs from the other पुराणs in the form of its narrative rather than its sectarial character), [IW. 387 n. 1; 514.]

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