Are all Puranas also written in the Mahabharata?

Mahabharata is different and Puranas are different. Mahabharata and Ramayana comes in the category of Itihasa(History). Purana texts are called Puranas because they makes Vedas complete(puranat puranam iti canyatra). read more

Mahabharata is different and Puranas are different. Mahabharata and Ramayana comes in the category of Itihasa(History). Purana texts are called Puranas because they makes Vedas complete(puranat puranam iti canyatra).This is not to suggest that the Vedas are incomplete. read more

Puranas. The Puranas are a class of literary texts, all written in Sanskrit verse, whose composition dates from the 4 th century BCE to about 1,000 A.D. read more

There are numerous Sthala Puranas, most written in vernaculars, some with Sanskrit versions as well. The 275 Shiva Sthalams of the continent have puranas for each, famously glorified in the Tamil literature Tevaram. Some appear in Sanskrit versions in the Mahapuranas or Upapuranas. Some Tamil Sthala Puranas have been researched by David Dean Shulman. read more