This means that you can do research by text search in the books now with Adobe PDF reader, copy and paste to other formats etc. I have removed blank pages from the scanned books to make the file size smaller and punished my CPU for 14 hours by running OCR. This version is the first edition of the English translation published in India in 1950. The Skanda Purana consists of 20 books, here they are in the English translation.

20 scanned books – the complete PDF Skanda Purana The mythology also takes up large parts of the book, the name Skanda Purana refers to the war God Skanda ( Kartikeya) son of Shiva. Other parts are more devotional and discusses theology, dharma and the absolute. Parts of it describes pilgrim routes and serves as travel guides for monks to important temples and monasteries all over India. The complete Skanda Purana covers many topics. The Matsya Purana Introduction There are eighteen major Puranas or mahapuranas, the word 'maha', meaning great. Parts of the text have also been found in Tamil Nadu and other parts of India, indicating that the Skanda Purana has been an important and widespread corpus of texts. However, earlier versions are likely to have existed. The manuscripts were written on palm leafs, the oldest one dated to 810 CE. The present edition of Matsya Purana is a complete book in 2 volumes that includes Sanskrit text, English translation with Notes, an exhaustive Introduction. They were discovered in a library in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 1898 by Haraprasad Shastri and Cecil Bendall. The Skanda Purana is a huge compilation of ancient Hindu scriptures. All Puranas Addeddate 06:17:27 Identifier ShivaPurana Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t2894tm6b Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 Ppi 300 Scanner.

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