Divisions

Created by Jijith Nadumuri at 23 Jul 2011 11:34 and updated at 23 Jul 2011 11:34

VISHNU PURANA NOUN

vp.2.8 Description of the sun: his chariot; its two axles: his horses. The cities of the regents of the cardinal points. The sun s course: nature of his rays: his path along the ecliptic. Length of day and night. Divisions of time: equinoxes and solstices, months, years, the cyclical Yuga, or age of five years. Northern and southern declinations. Saints on the Lokaloka mountain. Celestial paths of the Pitris, gods, Vishnu. Origin of Ganga, and separation, on the top of Meru, into four great rivers.
vp.3.5 Divisions of the Yajur veda. Story of Yajnawalkya: forced to give up what he has learned: picked up by others, forming the Taittiriya yajush. Yajnawalkya worships the sun, who communicates to him the Vajasneyi yajush.
vp.3.6 Divisions of the Sama veda: of the Atharva veda. Four Pauranik Sanhitas. Names of the eighteen Puranas. Branches of knowledge. Classes of Rishis.

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