Tales from the Puranas

This book brigs together, in a concise and easily readable form, various tales contained in different Puranas dedicated to Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. It is ideal for they youth of today’s fast changing world and for reading aloud to their children so as to preserve our unique cultural heritage. The Puranas constitute an important source of the cultural history not only of India but the entire world. They occupy an intermediated position between the earliest age and the present age. They have been influencing life of the human being throughout centuries. The main source of information for the history of the earliest period i e even before the sixth century B C is the Tales from Puranas. Thus the Puranas and isolated references in other literary works have proved to be very important historical data of our ancient period. In the domain of myth and legend, thousands of stories from Puranas have emerged. The stories of the creation of the world from a fish as the first incarnation of Vishnu, the tortoise incarnation, the Nagas as serpent spirits of the waters and the underworld and many more are among them. All these have been more or less distorted in the Sanskrit Puranas.