Purana (disambiguation)

Purana (disambiguation)

Puran or Purana and similar can mean:
*Purana, a type of Hindu Indian literature
*Puran, a subdivision and a tehsil of Shangla District, North-West Frontier Province NWFP, Pakistan
*Operation Purana, a police investigation into the underworld of Melbourne, Australia
*Puran Appu, 1812-1848, a Sri Lankan historic figure
*Puran Bair, a meditation teacher, mystic, and author
*Puran Poli, a type of Indian sweet
*Purana Kassapa, an Indian ascetic teacher who lived around the 5th or 4th c. BCE, contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha
*Puran Bhagat, a temple at Taragarh near Dinanagar in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India
*Puran Rana Tharu, a Nepalese politician
*Purana Mandir, a 1984 Hindi feature film
*Purana Qila, Delhi, an old fort
*Puran Bhatt, a renowned puppeteer of Rajasthan
*Purana pul, an old bridge which is a major landmark in Hyderabad, India


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