18 puranas[VERSES THEREIN]

THE GREAT SAGE SUTA TALKS ABOUT VARIOUS PURANAS, THE NUMBER OF SLOKAS WHICH ARE THERE IN EACH PURANA. 1. BRAHMA PURANA COMPRISES TEN THOUSAND SLOKAS.2.  PADMA PURANA--FIFTY THOUSAND SLOKAS.3.SRIVISHNU PURANA-TWENTY THREE THOUSAND.4.SRIMAD BAGAVATHAM---EIGHTEEN THOUSND. 5.SHIVA PURANA-TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND.------6.NARADA PURANA---------TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND.-----7.MARKANDEYA PURANA------NINE THOUSAND. 8.-AGNI PURANA------FIFTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED.--9.-BHAVISHYA PURAN FOURTEEN THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED.---10.......BRAHMAVAIVARTHA PURANA---EIGHTEEN THOUSAND.--11.-LINGA PURANA---ELEVEN THOUSAND.--12.-VARAHA PURANA-TWENTY FOUR THOUSAND.---13.-SKANDA PURANA-EIGHTY ONE THOUSAND. 14.-KURMA PURANA-SEVENTEEN THOUSAND.---15.-VAMANA PURANA--TEN THOUSAND.----16,,MATSYA PURANAM----FOURTEEN THOUSAND.--17--GARUDA PURANAM--NINETEEN THOUSAND.---18.---BRAHMANDA PURANAM---TWELVE THOUSAND.        THIS WAY TOTALLY THERE ARE FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND SLOKAS IN EIGHTEEN PURANAS.-- BAGHAVATHA PURANA WAS GRACIOUSLY REVEALED BY ALMIGHTY LORD FOR THE FIRST TIME TO BRAHMA THE CREATOR, SEATED ON THE LOTUS SPRUNG FROM LORD,S NAVEL THE NECTOR LIKE STORIES OF LORD HARI IS SUM AND SUBSTANCE OF ALL UPANISHADS, WHICH ARE THE CULMINATION OF VEDAS. AND HAS BEEN CHARACTERISED AS THE ONENESS BRAHMAN THE ABSOLUTE AND THE INDIVIDUAL JEEVA..