According to the Garuda Purana, a soul after leaving the body, travels through a very long & dark tunnel towards South.

* According to Vamana Purana 32. 1-4, the Sarasvati rose from the Plaksa tree ( Pipal tree ).

According to Mahabharata, Purana, Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga kingdom.

According to Vishnu Purana and Padma Purana, Daksha and his wife Prasuti had 24 daughters.

According to Matsya Purana, Daksha and his wife Panchajani ( daughter of Virani ) had 60 daughters, not one of whom resembled their father.

According to Padma Purana, when Daksha felt the number of women are still not sufficient, he decided to have 60 more daughters.

According to the Matsya Purana, the king of pre-ancient Aryavarta ( North India ) and a devotee of Vishnu, Satyavrata who later was known as Manu was washing his hands in a river when a little fish swam into his hands and pleaded with him to save its life.

According to a story from Bhagavata Purana, Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha are Vishnu's gatekeepers Jaya and Vijaya, born on earth as the result of a curse from the Four Kumaras.

According to a narrative in the Devi Mahatmya story of the Markandeya Purana text, Durga was created as a warrior goddess to fight an asura ( an inhuman force / demon ) named Mahishasura.

According to the scripture Sthala Purana, the legend of Venkateshwara's Avatar ( incarnation ) is as follows:

According to the Vishnu Purana, Kali is a negative manifestation of Vishnu working towards the cause of ' the end ' or rather towards eventual rejuvenation of the universe.

According to Pargiter, the " original Purana " may date to the time of the final redaction of the Vedas.

According to Matysa Purana, they are said to narrate five subjects, called Pancha Lakshana ( Sanskrit :) (" five distinguishing marks ", though some scholars have suggested that these are shared by other traditional religious scriptures ):

According to Charles Allen, one description in the Vishnu Purana of the mountain states that its four faces are made of crystal, ruby, gold, and lapis lazuli.

According to medieval Hindu theology, its origin is found in one of the most popular medieval puranas, the Bhagavata Purana.

According to Gita Mahatmya of Padma Purana, reading the 3rd, 7th and 8th chapter of Bhagavad Gita and mentally offering the result to departed persons helps them to get released from their ghostly situation.

According to Vayu Purana ( II. 36. 107 ), the Gandharas were destroyed by Pramiti, aka Kalika, at the end of Kaliyuga.

According to Swayambhu Purana, the Kathmandu Valley was once a lake.

According to the Skanda Purana, there was a divine prophesy that King Indradyumna would arrive at the Purushottam kshetra and desire to settle down there after renouncing Samsar.

According to the Padma Purana, Bali along with his kinsmen, friends and followers were bound.

According to the Matsya Purana, Dwaimushyayana Gotra or Dual Gotra is mentioned in Shounga-Shaishirey

According to the Swayambhu Purana, Manjusri then established a city called Manjupattan ( Sanskrit " Land Established by Manjusri "), now called Manjipā, and made Dharmākara its king.

According to the Shiva Purana, the Mahashivaratri worship must incorporate six items:

According to an opinion of some scholars in Patanjali's time identification of Krishna with Vasudeva is an established fact as is surmised from a passage of the Mahabhasya-( jaghana kamsam kila vasudevah ).

In the Shanti Parva ( 81. 25 ) of the Mahabharata, the Kukuras, the Bhojas, the Andhakas and the Vrishnis are together referred as a sangha, and Vasudeva Krishna as Sanghamukhya ( seignor of the sangha ) According to the Puranas, Vrishni was one of the four sons of Satvata.

According to the Ghata Jataka, Vasudeva, Baladeva and eight other Andhaka-Venhu ( probably, a corrupt form of Andhaka-Venhi, Pali equivalent to Sanskrit Andhaka-Vrishni ) brothers seized Dvaravati and killed its king Kamsa.

According to the Devibhagavata Purana ( IV. 1. 2 ), Shurasena was father of Vasudeva, father of Krishna.

According to the Mahabharata and the Puranas, Vasudeva, a powerful prince of the Pundra family, is said to have ruled over Pundravardhana as far back as 1280 BC.

According to the story, Krishna saw preparations for an annual offering to Lord Indra and asked his father Nanda about it.

According to Plutarch, at the time of the Battle of the Hydaspes River, the Nanda Empire's army numbered 200, 000 infantry, 80, 000 cavalry, 8, 000 chariots, and 7, 000 war elephants, which discouraged Alexander's men and prevented their further progress into India:

According to several legends, Chanakya traveled to Magadha, a kingdom that was large and militarily powerful and feared by its neighbors, but was insulted by its king Dhana Nanda, of the Nanda Dynasty.

According to tradition and recorded evidence ( please site a source ), Krishna was raised in the cowherding village of Gokul by his foster parents Nanda Maharaj and Yasoda.

According to the historian of science Meera Nanda:

According to Puranas, the areas of Fatehabad district remained a part of Nanda Empire.

According, then, to what I take to be the prevailing view, these rioters were merely a handful of irresponsible, Stalinist-corrupted provocateurs.

According to the Greek tradition the Dipylon master was named Daedalus, and in his statues the limbs were freed from the body, giving the impression that the statues could move.

According to Juha Janhunen, the ancestral languages of Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese were spoken in a relatively small area comprising present-day North Korea, Southern Manchuria, and Southeastern Mongolia ( Johanson and Robbeets 2010: 2 ).

According to the poet Saadi Shirazi: Arslan possessed a fort, which raised at the height of Alwand, from all were those within its walls, for its roads were a labyrinth, like the curls of a bride.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

According to M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

According to the Gospel of Matthew, at the death of Jesus tombs were opened, and at his resurrection many saints who had died emerged from their tombs and went into " the holy city ", presumably New Jerusalem.

According to Atanasoff's account, several key principles of the Atanasoff – Berry Computer were conceived in a sudden insight after a long nighttime drive during the winter of 1937 – 38.

According to Benjamin Thorpe " Grimm says the word embla, emla, signifies a busy woman, from amr, ambr, aml, ambl, assiduous labour ; the same relation as Meshia and Meshiane, the ancient Persian names of the first man and woman, who were also formed from trees.

However, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sussex said Kanzō Umehara considered the Ainu and some Ryukyuans to have " preserved their proto-Mongoloid traits " According to anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons physical features of the Proto-Mongoloid were characterized as, " a straight-haired type, medium in complexion, jaw protrusion, nose-breadth, and inclining probably to round-headedness ".

According to the mythology outlined by Virgil in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus were both descendants of Aeneas through their mother Rhea Silvia, making Aeneas progenitor of the Roman people.

According to 20th-century scholar Walther Ludwig, the poems were spuriously inserted into an early biography of Plato sometime between 250 BC and 100 BC and adopted by later writers from this source.

According to Sunni tradition the following verses of the Qur ' an were revealed due to this:

According to Porphyry, the parents of Ammonius were Christians, but upon learning Greek philosophy, Ammonius rejected his parents ' religion for paganism.

According to biblical scholars, the Torah's genealogy for Levi's descendants, is actually an aetiological myth reflecting the fact that there were four different groups among the levites – the Gershonites, Kohathites, Merarites, and Aaronids ; Aaron – the eponymous ancestor of the Aaronids – couldn't be portrayed as a brother to Gershon, Kohath, and Merari, as the narrative about the birth of Moses ( brother of Aaron ), which textual scholars attribute to the earlier Elohist source, mentions only that both his parents were Levites ( without identifying their names ).

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

According to Al-Jalalan, the relics in the Ark were the fragments of the two tablets, rods, robes, shoes, mitres of Moses and the vase of manna.

According to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 4. 8 million Vietnamese people were exposed to Agent Orange, resulting in 400, 000 people being killed or maimed, and 500, 000 children born with birth defects.

According to Capp, who loved to relate the story, Kelly's two perfectly logical reasons for doing so were: a. to cement diplomatic relations between Argentina and the United States, and b. " Because you can't play the piano, anyway!