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Hells of Garuda Purana

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist The Garuda Purana is one of the 18 Puranas composed by Ved Vyasa in order to explain Vedic principles. It was in a…

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Published December 26, 2019 · 3 min read
hells of garuda purana

By Dr. Devdutt Pattanaik - Author, Speaker, Illustrator, Mythologist

The Garuda Purana is one of the 18 Puranas composed by Ved Vyasa in order to explain Vedic principles. It was in a forest called Naimisha, where the narration happened for the first time. In the story, Vyasa says that the Garuda Purana was narrated by Vishnu to Garuda to explain what happens after death, hence the name Garuda Purana.

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