![]() There are two in the Company's library, which do not extend beyond twelve thousand verses but they are in many other respects different from mine: one of them was written at Agra, in the reign of Akbar, in A. The two copies which were employed by me contain about fifteen thousand ślokas. Its contents are variously specified as sixteen thousand, fifteen thousand, or fourteen thousand stanzas. By him it was taught to Vyāsa, who imparted it to Sūta and the latter is represented as repeating it to the Rising at Naimiṣāraṇya. ![]() ![]() ” The Agni or Agneya Purāṇa derives its name from its having being communicated originally by Agni, the deity of fire, to the Muni Vaśiṣṭha, for the purpose of instructing him in the twofold knowledge of Brahma. “That Purāṇa which describes the occurrences of the Īśāna Kalpa, and was related by Agni to Vaśiṣṭha, is called the Āgneya: it consists of sixteen thousand stanzas.
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