Agni Purana

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Agni Purana, one of the major eighteen Puranas, a Hindu religious text, 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, history, warfare, and even sections on Sanskrit grammar, meter, law, medicine, and martial arts. Tradition has it that it was originally recited by Agni to the sage Vasishta.

Its composition is either dated to the 8th-9th century^[1][2] or the 10th-11th century^[3]

[edit] References

1. ^ J. R. Svinth (2001). Martial Arts of the World: An Encyclopedia.
2. ^ Phillip B. Zarrilli. Paradigms of Practice and Power in a South Indian Martial Art. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
3. ^ Werba, Verba Indoarica 1997:6.

[edit] Further reading

• Mani, Vettam. Puranic Encyclopedia. 1st English ed. New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1975.

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