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Puranas
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Puranas (prä`nə): see Sanskrit literature Sanskrit literature, literary works written in Sanskrit constituting the main body of the classical literature of India.

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The literature is divided into two main periods—the Vedic (c.1500–c.200 B.C.
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Despite Pargiter's (1913) admirable patience in attempting to reconstruct an acceptable chronology out of these Puranic lists, there is a virtual chaos among various puranas and upapuranas.
 
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