CONTENTS:-
Part I: FROM VEDA AND EPIC TO PURANA AND UPAPURANA:
1. The Transparent Text: Puranic Trends in the Brhaddevata / Laurie L. Patton
2. Echoes of the Mahabharata: Why is a Parrot the Narrator of the Bhagavata Purana and the Devibhagavata Purana? / Wendy Doniger
3. The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Parana / Wendy Doniger
Part II: FROM SOUTH TO NORTH AND BACK AGAIN:
4. Purana as Brahminic Ideology / Velcheru Narayana Rao
5. On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas / A.K. Ramanujan
6. Remaking a Purana: The Rescue of Gajendra in Potana's Telugu Mahabhagavatamu / David Shulman
7. Information and Transformation: Two Faces of the Puranas / Friedhelm Hardy
Part III: FROM HINDU TO JAINA AND BACK AGAIN:
8. An Overview of the Jaina Puranas / John E. Cort
9. Jaina Puranas: A Puranic Counter Tradition / Padmanabh S. Jaini
