Practicing Success
What was the purpose of writing the Puranas in simple Sanskrit verse? |
To make them easy to carve on sculptures To make them exclusive to scholars To ensure they were read aloud to all, including women and Shudras To preserve them for the elite |
To ensure they were read aloud to all, including women and Shudras |
Deciphering the significance embedded within these sculptures necessitates the historian's acquaintance with the narratives enshrined behind them. A multitude of these narratives found their repository in the Puranas, textual compendiums crafted by Brahmanas around the mid-first millennium CE. Within these texts, an abundance of material, including stories featuring deities, had been meticulously compiled and circulated across centuries. |