Essay On Ashtadasa Purana

CHAPTER 1

All the fables lying
Buried under dark
Labyrinth of history are required now
Sri Sri

No other country in the world has such an enormous epic literature like India. In this country’s literature and cultural discourses these epic images and metaphors have become a part.
“But now these dark corners /grey areas of history are needed” said Sri Sri a noted literary figure and famous poet in Telugu in his poem Mahaprasthanam. Not only that but he also said history is not simply why a war is fought, how many years did a kingdom survive? Dates and records are not what history means. In man’s everyday life there is rarely any discussion that would not referred to these epics. How did such epics orally transfer from one generation to other since hundreds and thousands of years? How did these epics form different images through the ages? What is the

To realize epic literature has become cultural hegemonic symbol, first one need to understand when this epic formed and how it proliferated. Kulapuranas are the continuation for the Ashtadasa purana which is written in Sanskrit, which is why one needs to understand the emergence of the presence of the Sanskrit puranas, not only that but also the political and cultural circumstances need to be understood to comprehend the hidden politics. Likewise Puranas have been spread like a memory from one generation to the other. During the time of Mauryas, Sungas, Satavahanas, Guptas, Puranas have been formed. It has been proved that the history of kings have been described in those Puranas. Jataka stories and other Puranas have undergone changes through the ages. The reason behind those changes are religious practices, divine things and cultural policy followed by those dynasties. Every dynasty and princely states( ?), according to their cultural and political goals, manipulated or rewrote the