Puranas

The Puranas are the ancient memorial scriptures of Hinduism treating cosmology, cosmic cycles, genealogies, dynastic history and the glories of the gods; the tradition counts eighteen Maha-puranas and an equal number of Upa-puranas. In the processed verses: Suta has studied them as expounded by the masters (SB 1.1.6); they are known fully to Badarayana and the other sages (1.1.7); and the Srimad Bhagavata is itself a Maha-purana (1.1.2).

Śrīmad Bhāgavata Mahāpurāṇa 1.1.6 — Sanskrit Wikisource (pinned oldid=110172)