In the Puranas, stories of sins, virtues, dharmas, and karmas are told, with different deities as the focus. The various forms of gods and goddesses and their evil tendencies are also widely mentioned in the Puranas. But its main goal is the development of virtue and the prest...

Hinduism, in its origins and development, has played a major role in oral traditions and visual imagery. Two other important contributions in this regard are the Dharma texts of other orders, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana. Both compositions were originally composed in Sansk...

Puranas are religious texts written in Sanskrit that were passed down orally for centuries before being written from the 2nd century. They are part of the sacred literature of the Hindu faith that also comprise of the Vedas, Brahmanas, Aryayankas, Upanishads, and the great epi...