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Puranas: In The Light Of Modern Science

AuthorK Narayanaswamy Aiyer
PublisherCBH Publications
Publisher2018, pbk
Publisher400 p,
ISBN9789383811403

Contents: Introduction. Chapters. 1.Sarga  2.Prati-Sarga  3.Kala  4.Vamsa  5.Vams’anucharitam  6.The Trimurti  7. Avataras  8.Key to the Study of the Puranas.
The present book brings to light in a detailed manner  the scientific basis of Puranas, content of the Different Puranas and their character, Light on the age of the  universe, how they have been codified into the different yugas, the representation of the characters in the Puranas, the stories in different Puranas, Scientific relevance of Puranas  based  on the modern discoveries  and how they are able to answer the evolution of nature,  the time concept of  the Modern world. All these ideas have been presented  in an  excellent manner.  The chapters of the Puranas have been evaluated on a scientific basis and how they are relevant even today and forms the basis for scientific evaluation of the modern times.
The book brings to light how voluminous the contents  of the puranas are, and more than that, how even  they surpass all  the western literature in quality and  content put together.
The book also throws the importance of how the reading of the Puranas were used to inculcate good character  and practiced in earlier days among the lesser educated masses and  how Srutis and Smrutis came to became the learning  domain for the scholarly oriented  and how Puranas  became the food for thought for the lesser educated.

 

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