Final Class Notes from Purana

General message of the Purana is very uniform

A Purana reciter makes use of different puranas
An author (Vyasa) unifies the meaning of the text
Vedas do not contain much of substancePuranas ultimately define what
Hinduism iswhat social structure, duties of caste, etc.
It is more Brahmanism than Hinduism
There is no problem for a Saiva to read a Vaisnava Purana because they have
lots of similarity of values, social hierarchy etc.
Every god has greatest ---same---qualities
All puranas of sacredness of water---Place, a particular deity of that place
---all of them have the same power
Jaina Purana reject bathe in water because it involves some violence Jaina
Puranas also reject brahmins
Non-violence in general is accepted in the Brahmanic Puranas
Puranas embedded in the particular Rammohan Roy etc. focused on
Bhagavatgita, Upanishad etc. are transportable, can be carried out to the
worldonly thing they missied out narrativenarratives are the basis of
religion