Description
Benefits & Features:
● Skanda Purana is the largest Mahapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious.
● The Skanda Purana is the largest Mukyapurana, a genre of eighteen Hindu religious texts.
● The text contains over 81, 000 verses, and is of Kaumara literature, titled after Skanda, a son of Shiva and Parvati, who is also known as Murugan. While the text is named after Skanda, he does not feature either more or less prominently in this text than in other Shiva-related Puranas.
● The text has been an important historical record and influence on the Hindu traditions related to the war-god Skanda.
● The earliest text titled Skanda Purana likely existed by the 8th century CE but the Skanda Purana that has survived into the modern era exists in many versions.
● It is considered as a living text, which has been widely edited, over many centuries, creating numerous variants.
● The common elements in the variant editions encyclopedically cover cosmogony, mythology, genealogy, dharma, festivals, gemology, temples, geography, discussion of virtues and evil, of theology and of the nature and qualities of Shiva as the Absolute and the source of true knowledge.
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