Puranas: In The Light Of Modern Science
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.