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	The '''''Vamana Purana''''' ({{~~lang-~~sa\|वामन पुराण}}, [[IAST]]: {{IAST\|Vāmana Purāṇa}}), is ~~a medieval era~~ [[Sanskrit]] text and one of the eighteen major [[Purana]]s of [[Hinduism]].{{sfn\|Dalal\|2014\|p=443}} The text is named after one of the incarnations of [[Vishnu]] and probably was a [[Vaishnavism\|Vaishnava]] text in its origin.{{sfn\|Dalal\|2014\|p=443}} However, the modern surviving manuscripts of ''Vamana Purana'' are more strongly centered on [[Shiva]], while containing chapters that revere Vishnu and other Hindu gods and goddesses.{{sfn\|Hazra\|1987\|pp=76-79}}{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=240}} It is considered a [[Shaivism\|Shaiva]] text.{{sfn\|Dalal\|2014\|p=443}}{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=35}} Further, the text hardly has the character of a Purana,{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=240}} and is predominantly a collection of ''Mahatmyas'' (travel guides){{sfn\|Glucklich\|2008\|p=146}}{{efn\|Quote: "The earliest promotional works aimed at tourists from that era were called ''mahatmyas''."{{sfn\|Glucklich\|2008\|p=146}}}} to many Shiva-related places in India with legends and mythology woven in.{{sfn\|Wilson\|1864\|pp=LXXV-LXXVI}}		The '''''Vamana Purana''''' ({{langx\|sa\|वामन पुराण}}, [[IAST]]: {{IAST\|Vāmana Purāṇa}}), is an ancient [[Sanskrit]] text that is at least 1,000 years old and is one of the eighteen major [[Purana]]s of [[Hinduism]].{{sfn\|Dalal\|2014\|p=443}} The text is named after one of the incarnations of [[Vishnu]] and probably was a [[Vaishnavism\|Vaishnava]] text in its origin.{{sfn\|Dalal\|2014\|p=443}} However, the modern surviving manuscripts of ''Vamana Purana'' are more strongly centered on [[Shiva]], while containing chapters that revere Vishnu and other Hindu gods and goddesses.{{sfn\|Hazra\|1987\|pp=76-79}}{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=240}} It is considered a [[Shaivism\|Shaiva]] text.{{sfn\|Dalal\|2014\|p=443}}{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=35}} Further, the text hardly has the character of a Purana,{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=240}} and is predominantly a collection of ''Mahatmyas'' (travel guides){{sfn\|Glucklich\|2008\|p=146}}{{efn\|Quote: "The earliest promotional works aimed at tourists from that era were called ''mahatmyas''."{{sfn\|Glucklich\|2008\|p=146}}}} to many Shiva-related places in India with legends and mythology woven in.{{sfn\|Wilson\|1864\|pp=LXXV-LXXVI}}

	The extant manuscripts of ''Vamana Purana'' exist in various versions, likely very different from the original, and show signs of revision over time and regions.{{sfn\|Winternitz\|1927\|pp=572-573}}{{sfn\|Hazra\|1987\|pp=78-83, 92-93}} It has been published by All India Kashiraj Trust in two rounds.{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=239}} The first round had 95 chapters, while the [[critical edition]] (edited by Anand Swarup Gupta, and published by the All-India Kashiraj Trust, Varanasi) published in the second round has 69 chapters plus an attached ''Saro-mahatmya'' with 28 chapters dedicated to temples and sacred sites in and around modern [[Haryana]].{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=239}}{{sfn\|Wilson\|1864\|p=LXXVI}} Both these versions lack the ''Brhad-vamana'' with four [[samhita]]s, which is mentioned in the text, but is believed to have been lost to history.{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=239}}		The extant manuscripts of ''Vamana Purana'' exist in various versions, likely very different from the original, and show signs of revision over time and regions.{{sfn\|Winternitz\|1927\|pp=572-573}}{{sfn\|Hazra\|1987\|pp=78-83, 92-93}} It has been published by All India Kashiraj Trust in two rounds.{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=239}} The first round had 95 chapters, while the [[critical edition]] (edited by Anand Swarup Gupta, and published by the All-India Kashiraj Trust, Varanasi) published in the second round has 69 chapters plus an attached ''Saro-mahatmya'' with 28 chapters dedicated to temples and sacred sites in and around modern [[Haryana]].{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=239}}{{sfn\|Wilson\|1864\|p=LXXVI}} Both these versions lack the ''Brhad-vamana'' with four [[samhita]]s, which is mentioned in the text, but is believed to have been lost to history.{{sfn\|Rocher\|1986\|p=239}}

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{{Short description|One of eighteen major Puranas of Hindus}}
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The '''''Vamana Purana''''' ({{lang-sa|वामन पुराण}}, [[IAST]]: {{IAST|Vāmana Purāṇa}}), is a medieval era [[Sanskrit]] text and one of the eighteen major [[Purana]]s of [[Hinduism]].{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}} The text is named after one of the incarnations of [[Vishnu]] and probably was a [[Vaishnavism|Vaishnava]] text in its origin.{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}} However, the modern surviving manuscripts of ''Vamana Purana'' are more strongly centered on [[Shiva]], while containing chapters that revere Vishnu and other Hindu gods and goddesses.{{sfn|Hazra|1987|pp=76-79}}{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=240}} It is considered a [[Shaivism|Shaiva]] text.{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}}{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=35}} Further, the text hardly has the character of a Purana,{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=240}} and is predominantly a collection of ''Mahatmyas'' (travel guides){{sfn|Glucklich|2008|p=146}}{{efn|Quote: "The earliest promotional works aimed at tourists from that era were called ''mahatmyas''."{{sfn|Glucklich|2008|p=146}}}} to many Shiva-related places in India with legends and mythology woven in.{{sfn|Wilson|1864|pp=LXXV-LXXVI}}

The extant manuscripts of ''Vamana Purana'' exist in various versions, likely very different from the original, and show signs of revision over time and regions.{{sfn|Winternitz|1927|pp=572-573}}{{sfn|Hazra|1987|pp=78-83, 92-93}} It has been published by All India Kashiraj Trust in two rounds.{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=239}} The first round had 95 chapters, while the [[critical edition]] (edited by Anand Swarup Gupta, and published by the All-India Kashiraj Trust, Varanasi) published in the second round has 69 chapters plus an attached ''Saro-mahatmya'' with 28 chapters dedicated to temples and sacred sites in and around modern [[Haryana]].{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=239}}{{sfn|Wilson|1864|p=LXXVI}} Both these versions lack the ''Brhad-vamana'' with four [[samhita]]s, which is mentioned in the text, but is believed to have been lost to history.{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=239}}

The text is non-sectarian, and its first version was likely created by the 9th to 11th century CE.{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}}{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=241}}

== Content ==
The earliest core of the text has been dated variously between 450 CE - 900 CE,{{sfn|Collins|1988|p=36}} but most scholars favour the 9th to 11th century.{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}}{{sfn|Rocher|1986|p=241}} The early printed editions of this work had 96 chapters, the new versions have 69 chapters with a supplement. The supplement were not found in some versions of manuscripts discovered in [[Bengal]].{{sfn|Rocher|1986|pp=239-240}}

At the beginning (chapter 1), Narada asks Pulastya about the assumption of the ''Vamana'' [[avatar]] by Vishnu, which is his dwarf avatar. The text includes chapters glorifying Vishnu, but includes many more chapters glorifying Shiva.{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}} The text also glorifies various goddesses.{{sfn|Gietz|1992|pp=30, 343|ps=, with note 1883}}

The text contains chapters on cosmology and mythology typical of a Purana.{{sfn|Dalal|2014|p=443}}{{sfn|Rocher|1986|pp=239-240}} The text includes ''Saromahatmya'', which is a 28 chapter guide{{sfn|Rocher|1986|pp=239-240}} to the [[Tirtha (Hinduism)|tirtha]]s, rivers and forests of the region around [[Thanesar]] and [[Kurukshetra]] in modern [[Haryana]], as well as sites in modern eastern Punjab (India).{{sfn|Gietz|1992|pp=928-929|ps=, with notes 5351-5352}} The text also mentions geography and sites in South India.{{sfn|Gietz|1992|p=30|ps=, with note 149}}

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
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* {{cite journal |last=Bailey |first=G. M. |title=For a new study of the Vāmana Purāna |journal=Indo-Iranian Journal |publisher=Brill Academic |volume=29 |issue=1 |year=1986 |pages=1–16 |doi=10.1163/000000086790082181}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bailey |first1=Gregory |editor1-last=Sharma |editor1-first=Arvind |title=The Study of Hinduism |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=npCKSUUQYEIC |year=2003 |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |isbn=978-1-57003-449-7}}
*{{cite book |first=Charles Dillard |last=Collins |title=The Iconography and Ritual of Siva at Elephanta: On Life, Illumination, and Being |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQNi6kAGJQ4C&pg=PA36 |year=1988 |publisher=SUNY Press |isbn=978-0-88706-773-0}}
*{{cite book |first=Rosen |last=Dalal |year=2014 |title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide |publisher=Penguin |isbn= 978-8184752779| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC}}
* {{cite book |last1=Dimmitt |first1=Cornelia |first2=J.A.B. |last2=Van Buitenen |author2-link=J. A. B. van Buitenen |title=Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=re7CR2jKn3QC |publisher=Temple University Press |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4399-0464-0}}
* {{cite book |last1=Gietz |first1=K.P. |display-authors=et al |title=Epic and Puranic Bibliography (Up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes: Part I: A - R, Part II: S - Z, Indexes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kgpLBpUCufwC |year=1992 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |isbn=978-3-447-03028-1}}
*{{cite book |last1=Glucklich |first1=Ariel |title=The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtLScrjrWiAC |year=2008 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-971825-2 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Hazra |first1=Rajendra Chandra |title=Studies in the Puranic Records on Hindu Rites and Customs |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jar4V3piCeQC |orig-year=1940 |year=1987 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=978-81-208-0422-7}}
* {{cite book |first1=Stella |last1=Kramrisch |author-link=Stella Kramrisch |year=1976 |title=The Hindu Temple, Volume 1 & 2 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=81-208-0223-3}}
* {{cite book |last1=Rocher |first1=Ludo |author-link=Ludo Rocher |title=The Purāṇas |date=1986 |publisher=Otto Harrassowitz Verlag |location=Wiesbaden |isbn=3-447-02522-0}}
*{{cite book |last= Wilson |first=H. H. |author-link= Horace Hayman Wilson|title=The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition (Volume 1: Introduction, Book I) |year=1864 | url=https://archive.org/stream/vishnupurnsyst01wils#page/n3/mode/2up | publisher=Read Country Books (reprinted in 2006) |isbn=1-84664-664-2}}
* {{cite book |last1=Winternitz |first1=M. |translator1-last=Ketkar |translator1-first=S. |title=A History of Indian Literature |volume=1 |date=1927 |publisher=[[University of Calcutta]] |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.97551#page/n603/}}
{{refend}}

== External links ==
* [http://shivyoga.net/vamanpuran/ Vamana Purana in Hindi]

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