The KapilaPurana (Sanskrit: कपिल पुराण, KapilaPurāṇa) (c. 11th century) is a Hindu religious text. The text is considered one of the 18 Upapuranas. It...
Kapila (Sanskrit: कपिल), also referred to as Cakradhanus, is a sage in Hindu tradition. According to Bhagavata Purana, he is the son of the sage Kardama...
sage Kapila, Rama, Nimi, Janaka, Satyavati, Puru, Yadu, Krishna, Devaka, Pandu, Kuru, Bharata, Bhisma, and others. The fifth book of the Vishnu Purana is...
Puranas (IPA: [pʊˈrɑːɳə]; Sanskrit: पुराण, romanized: purāṇa, lit. 'ancient, old') are a vast genre of Hindu literature about a wide range of topics, particularly...
The Bhagavata Purana (Sanskrit: भागवतपुराण; IAST: Bhāgavata Purāṇa), also known as the Srimad Bhagavatam (Śrīmad Bhāgavatam), Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana...
Kurma Purana, the Garuda Purana, the Sanatkumara Purana, the Ekamra Purana, the Vāruṇa Purāṇa, the Pārāśara Purāṇa, the Skanda Purana, the Padma Purana, the...
of Jagannath. Rasa lila is described in Hindu texts like the Bhagavata Purana and Gita Govinda as a night in Vrindavan when Krishna danced with his gopi-consort...
Kapila Theertham is a small Saivite Temple and Theertham, located at Tirupati in Tirupati district of Andhra Pradesh, India. The idol is believed to be...
literature. It is the name of a Pandya king featured in the Mahabharata and the Puranas, the son of King Sumati of the Suryavamsha (Solar dynasty) and the grandson...
in Assam, India. Which is around 30 km to west of Guwahati. The Kalika Purana composed in the 11th century CE in Kamarupa talks about the origin of this...
The Vishnudharmottara Purana (or the Vishnudharmottara) is a Hindu Sanskrit text in the Upapuranas genre. Like the Mahapuranas, it is also encyclopedic...
of nine daughters by her, as well as one son, the sage Kapila. According to the Bhagavata Purana, Brahma is said to have instructed his son Kardama to...
scriptures such as the Rigveda, Matsya purana, Brahma Purana, Narada Purana, Padma Purana, Skanda Purana, KapilaPurana and Niladrimahodaya. In the Rigveda...
Visva, Vinata, Kapila, Muni and Kadru. There are various interpretations. Scholar Vettam Mani, after analysing the epics and Puranas, concluded that...
mother of all cows in the text. However, in the Puranas, such as Vishnu Purana and Bhagavata Purana, Surabhi is described as the daughter of Daksha and...
A (1952). The Narada-Purana Part. 4. MOTILAL BANARSIDASS PUBLISHERS PVT. LTD, DELHI. pp. 1486. Jacobsen, Knut A. (2008). Kapila, Founder of Sāṃkhya and...
are rooted in Vedas. Both the Itihasas and the Puranas like the Devi Bhagavata Purana and the Kalika Purana as well as the Saiva and Sakta Agamas prescribe...
primordial matter') and Mahamaya ('she who is beyond maya'). The Devi Bhagavata Purana and Lalita Sahasranama describe Mahadevi's numerous epithets. These names...
Abhinavagupta and Al-Biruni, academics estimate the date of origin of the Bhagavata Purana to be between 800–1000 C.E. It is impossible to accurately date Vedic literature...
Patala, where Sage Kapila was performing a penance. The 60,000 sons of Sagara discovered the horse in Patala, whereupon they disturbed Kapila with their hoarse...
Bhagavata Purana (6.3.20-21) lists twelve Mahajanas, regarded to be the greatest devotees of Vishnu: Brahma, Narada, Shiva, the Four Kumaras, Kapila, Svayambhuva...
in the Vedas, Vamana is most commonly associated in the Hindu epics and Puranas with the story of taking back the three worlds (collectively referred to...
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