Puranas

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Preserving the Puranas from Hindu Dharma

For a thousand or ten thousand years our temples and the festivals associated

with them have nurtured our religious traditions against various opposing

forces. Every temple has a story to tell; every temple festival has a legend

behind it. These have been preserved in the Puranas. To ignore or neglect this

great heritage, this great treasure, is to cause serious hurt to the religious

feelings of our people.

 

In the past, when there was no printing press, the palm-leaf manuscripts were

jealously guarded generation after generation. Is it right to keep them in

neglect when so many books are churned out by the printing presses today, the

majority of them injurious to our inner advancement? It is our duty to preserve

the Puranas for future generations. Not to do so is to deprive them of great

source of inspiration

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

we should preserve all puranas for future - these have survived great

technological changes since yeons and are much studied by present day

scholars. It is our sacred duty to preserve them for a future when

present/current technologies fail.

 

Mrs Nalini Persad

Curator

South Indian Languages

 

M P Bhattathiry

 

30/07/03 07:31

Puranas

 

Preserving the Puranas from Hindu Dharma

For a thousand or ten thousand years our temples and the festivals

associated with them have nurtured our religious traditions against

various opposing forces. Every temple has a story to tell; every temple

festival has a legend behind it. These have been preserved in the

Puranas. To ignore or neglect this great heritage, this great treasure,

is to cause serious hurt to the religious feelings of our people.

 

In the past, when there was no printing press, the palm-leaf manuscripts

were jealously guarded generation after generation. Is it right to keep

them in neglect when so many books are churned out by the printing

presses today, the majority of them injurious to our inner advancement?

It is our duty to preserve the Puranas for future generations. Not to do

so is to deprive them of great source of inspiration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Srirangasri-

 

 

 

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