[Advaita-l] Purana-Sharada Sringeri

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Jaldhar ji
So the vāyavīya saṁhitā of the śiva purāṇa and  the vāyu purāṇa are almost
identical?
Om
Raghav

On Sat, 28 Mar 2026 at 2:02 AM, Jaldhar H. Vyas via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Mar 2026, Sangeerth P via Advaita-l wrote:
>
> > This is the sloka which I have heard for remembering the 18 puranas. In
> the
> > above website Vayu purana is not there वचतुष्टयम्-(Vamana, Vayu, Vishnu,
> > Varaha). Instead they have given Shiva purana. Is there any reason for
> this
> > twist and tweak (like hatredness towards Madhwa philosophy)? Or is there
> > any other sloka which lists 18 puranas were Vayu Purana doesnt come and
> > Shiva purana comes?
> > मद्वयं भद्वयं चैव ब्रत्रयं वचतुष्टयम्।
> > अनापलिङ्गकूस्कानि पुराणानि प्रचक्षते॥
>
> There is complete agreement that there are 18 mahapuranas and that Veda
> Vyasa is their author.  However, if we look carefully, we see there are
> two extant lists of puranas.  One (e.g. in Bhagavata) mentions Shiva but
> not Vayu and the other (e.g. in Padma) mentions Vayu and not
> Shiva. Historians suggest one reason as to why this is.
>
>
> If we look at the present day Shiva Purana, we see it is a composite work
> consisting of several samhitas.  One of theese (I believe the biggest) is
> called vAyavIya saMhitA.  The thinking is this is the original Shiva
> purana and was known by the name Vayu purana.  Later on it was absorbed
> into the current Shiva Purana and later on than that, someone noticed the
> discrepancy and "fixed" it by introducing the current work known as
> Vayu purana.
>
>
> Of course this is all speculation; we don't have any evidence for or
> against it.
>
>
>   --
> Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>
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