Introduction
Part I. From Veda and Epic to Purana and Upapurana
1 The Transparent Text: Puranic Trends in the Brhaddevata
Laurie L. Patton
2 Echoes of the Mahabharata : Why is a Parrot the Narrator of the Bhagavata Purana and the Devibhagavata Purana ?
Wendy Doniger
3 The Scrapbook of Undeserved Salvation: The Kedara Khanda of the Skanda Purana
Wendy Doniger
Part II. From South to North and Back Again
4 Purana as Brahminic Ideology
Velcheru Narayana Rao
5 On Folk Mythologies and Folk Puranas
A. K. Ramanujan
6 Remaking a Purana: The Rescue of Gajendra in Potana's Telugu Mahabhagavatamu
David Shulman
7 Information and Transformation: Two Faces of the Puranas
Friedhelm Hardy
Part III. From Hindu to Jaina and Back Again
8 An Overview of the Jaina Puranas
John E. Cort
9 Jaina Puranas: A Puranic Counter Tradition
Padmanabh S. Jaini
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index