Usually means: Ancient Hindu texts, mythological stories.
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  1. Purana, Purana: Merriam-Webster
  2. Purana: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Purana: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Purana: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Purana: Vocabulary.com
  6. Purana: Wordnik
  7. Purana: Wiktionary
  8. purana: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. purana: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Purana: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Purana, purana: Dictionary.com
  12. Purana: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Purana (disambiguation), Purana: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Purana: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. purana: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Purana: Rhymezone
  17. Purana: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. purana: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. purana: FreeDictionary.org
  20. purana: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Purana: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Purana: Encyclopedia

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  1. purana: Glossary of Sanskrit Terms in Integral Yoga Literature

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Purana)

▸ noun:  (Hinduism) A text that is part of an ancient Indian genre of Hindu or Jain written literature, concerning various topics, including cosmogony and mythology.

Similar:
purgana, kavya, panthan, pur., pandect, purism, purusartha, poesy, pious fiction, Dramatic Prakrit, more...

Opposite:
navya, modern, contemporary, new, fresh

Types:
Vishnu Purana, ShivPurana, PadmPurana, BhagavatPurana, MarkandeyPurana, more...

Phrases:
Bhagavata Purana, Garuda Purana, Shiva Purana, Vishnu Purana, Markandeya Purana, more...

Adjectives:
bhagavata, same, matsya, original, garuda, linga, vaivarta, agni, padma, entire, yuga

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Similar:
purgana, kavya, panthan, pur., pandect, purism, purusartha, poesy, pious fiction, Dramatic Prakrit, more...

Opposite:
navya, modern, contemporary, new, fresh

Types:
Vishnu Purana, ShivPurana, PadmPurana, BhagavatPurana, MarkandeyPurana, more...

Phrases:
Bhagavata Purana, Garuda Purana, Shiva Purana, Vishnu Purana, Markandeya Purana, Skanda Purana, Purana Qila, Devi-Bhagavata Purana, Bhavishya Purana, Brahmanda Purana, Brahma Vaivarta Purana, Matsya Purana, more...

Adjectives:
bhagavata, same, matsya, original, garuda, linga, vaivarta, agni, padma, entire, yuga

Colors:
    indigo,     saffron,     gold,     crimson,     emerald, more...



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