The Vayu Purana is a ShaivaPurana, dedicated to Vayu (the wind), containing some 24,000 shlokas. It is divided into four parts (padas), Åšaivism, also transliterated Shaivism and Saivism, is a branch of Hinduism that worships Siva as the Supreme God. ... The Puranas are part of Hindu Smriti; these religious scriptures discuss devotion and mythology. ... In Hinduism, Vayu (also known as Pavan) is a primary god, father of Bhima and Hanuman. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... A pada ( foot) in Sanskrit poetic meter (chandas) is a quarter of a full verse (the foot of a quadruped being one out of four), e. ...
Around the time when the puranas first began to be composed, the belief in particular deities had become established as one of the principal marks of the Hindu faith, and to some degree the puranas can be described as a form of sectarian literature.
Among these puranas, the Vishnu Purana and the Bhagavata Purana (also known as the Bhagavatam) are, with respect to their standing as works of devotional literature, preeminent; and the Bhagavata Purana is even the supreme work of Krishna devotional literature.
The Puranas are works that most eminently represent the deep mythic structuring of Indian civilization, and they are properly viewed as expanding upon, modifying, and transforming the orthodox Brahminism of the Vedas, principally by the introduction of the idea of bhakti or devotion.
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