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==The Puranas== | ==The Puranas== | ||
The puranas, 18 in all, compose a vast mass of historical literature on the history of Hindu kings, gods and people. They are traditionally attributed to Vyasa, the narrator of the Mahabharata. They purport to relate the history of the world from its creations. Like most of the Sanskrit Hindu scriptures, the puranas were originally oral texts handed down from teacher to pupil by the priestly brahmin caste. The actual writing down of the puranas happened far after their actual and supposed compososition, and the texts themselves show much evidence of accretions, editions, additions and subtractions along the way to finally being written down. | |||
==Contents and Composition of the Bhavishya Purana== | ==Contents and Composition of the Bhavishya Purana== | ||
The Bhavishya Purana purports to tell the "history of the future" (Bhavishya भविष्य means the future both in Sanskrit and modern Hindi) and also contains a description of the genesis of the worship of Lords Vishnua, Shiva and Surya. Like the other puranas much more recent material has been added to the primordial core of orally composed text, and scholars agree that the "prophecies" which it contains are actually examples of ''Vaticinium ex eventu'' "prophecies after the fact", historic events introduced into a "prophetic" text to make it appear to have prophetic powers of future understanding. | |||
==Importance of Bhavishya Purana in Islamic Dawah== | ==Importance of Bhavishya Purana in Islamic Dawah== | ||