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Padma Purana (Devanagari: पद्म पुराण), also called the gītāmāhātmya (literally, the Majesty of Gita) is one of the major eighteen Puranas. A Hindu religious text, it is divided into five parts and 55,000 verses. The Padma Purana categorizes itself as a Sattva Purana (one which represents goodness and purity). In the first part of the text, sage Pulastya explains to Bhishma about religion and the essence of the religion. The second part describes in detail Prithvi (earth). In the third part, a description of the cosmos is given, including creation, and description of India (Bharata Varsha). The fourth part describes the life and deeds of Rama. The fifth part is in the style of a dialogue between Shiva and his consort, Parvati, and deals with the essential knowledge about religion. The Padma Purana was compiled between the 4th and 15th century, with more important contributions being likely between 750 and 1000 CE or the 12th century CE,〔Raman Varadara (1993), ''Glimpses of Indian Heritage'', Popular Prakashan, p.76〕 and with an earlier core. There are a number of later Jaina works also known as ''Padma Purana''. ==Contents== This text was passed on in two different versions (often called recensions), the Bengal and the South Indian. The former recension consists of five ''khanda''s (sections): ''Shrishti Khanda'', ''Bhumi Khanda'', ''Svarga Khanda'', ''Patala Khanda'' and ''Uttara Khanda''. The latter recension consists of six ''khanda''s: ''Adi Khanda'' (also known as the ''Svarga Khanda'' in some printed editions), ''Bhumi Khanda'', ''Brahma Khanda'', ''Patala Khanda'', ''Srishti Khanda'' and ''Uttara Khanda''. The ''Bhumi Khanda'' of the Bengal recension contains additional thirteen chapters, while the ''Patala Khanda'' of this recension contains thirty-one additional chapters. The ''Svarga Khanda'' of this recension contains the descriptions about different regions (''loka''s) and narratives of kings and demons. The ''Srishti Khanda'' can be divided into two parts and the second part is not found in the Bengal recension.〔Hazra, R.C. (1962). ''The Puranas'' in S. Radhakrishnan ed. ''The Cultural Heritage of India'', Calcutta: The Ramkrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Vol.II, ISBN 81-85843-03-1, p.261〕 Purana include the Padma-purana (Balabhadrapurana) or Raidhu (15th century), the Padma-purana of Somadeva (1600), the Padma-purana of Dharmakirti (1612), the Padma-purana of Bhattaraka Candrakirti (17th century).〔Devi Prasada Mishra, cited in Kodaganallur Ramaswami Srinivasa Iyengar, ''Asian variations in Ramayana'', Sahitya Akademi (2006) ISBN 9788126018093, p. 61.〕 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「Padma Purana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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