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The Agni Purana, ((サンスクリット:अग्नि पुराण), ) one of the 18 Mahapuranas, a genre of Hindu religious texts, contains descriptions and details of various incarnations (avatars) of Vishnu. It also has details account about Rama, Krishna, Prithvi, and the stars. It has a number of verses dealing with ritual worship, cosmology and astrology, history, warfare, sections on grammar and meter, law, medicine, and martial arts. Tradition has it that it was originally recited by Agni to the sage Vasishta. The Padma Purana categorizes Agni Purana as a Tamas Purana (Purana of darkness or ignorance). The text is divided into 383 chapters. The ''athāgnipurāṇa pariśiṣṭam'' is an appendix of another six chapters. The text is medieval (post-Gupta), and has been dated to anywhere between the 8th and the 11th centuries.〔J. R. Svinth (2001). ''Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia''.〕〔Phillip B. Zarrilli. ''Paradigms of Practice and Power in a South Indian Martial Art''. University of Wisconsin-Madison.〕〔Werba, ''Verba Indoarica'' 1997:6.〕 ==Editions and translations== The first printed edition of the text was edited by Rajendralal Mitra in the 1870s (Calcutta : Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1870–1879, 3 volumes; Bibliotheca Indica, 65, 1–3). The entire text extends to slightly below one million characters. An English translation was published in two volumes by Manmatha Nath Dutt in 1903–04. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Agni Purana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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