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| Purana |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Pu·ra·na |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p -rä n |
| NOUN: | Any of a class of Sanskrit encyclopedic texts containing cosmogonic histories, legends of gods and heroes, and other traditional material. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Sanskrit pur  am, from neut. of pura-, old, prehistoric, from pur, of old, formerly. See per1 in Appendix I.
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