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

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

According to IIT Roorkee's website, ten alumni have won Padma Bhushan awards and 25 have been Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology awardees.

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 Sree Padma and Anthony Barber, the Bahuśrutīya understanding of this full exposition included the Mahāyāna teachings.

According to Padma Puran, the idol appeared by itself after the rigorous worship by the sons of Brahmaji.

According to the Padma Purana the name refers to Krishna's long, beautiful looking unshorn hair.

Padmasambhava ( flourished eighth century AD ), also called Guru Rimpoche, Tibetan Slob-dpon ( teacher ), or Padma ‘ byung-gnas ( lotus born ) legendary Indian Buddhist mystic who introduced Tantric Buddhism to Tibet and is credited with establishing the first buddhist monastery there. According to tradition, Padmasambhava was native to Udyana ( now Swat in Pakistan ).

According to the Padma Purāṇa, one of the eighteen main Purāṇas.

According to the Hindu scripture Padma Purana, Brahma saw the demon Vajranabha ( Vajranash in another version ) trying to kill his children and harassing people.

* According to the Padma Purana, this tree is the Parijaat tree, Kintoor, a unique baobab near Barabanki.

According to the Padma Purana, there are 8, 400, 000 life-form species, 900, 000 of which are aquatic ones ; 2, 000, 000 are trees and plants ; 1, 100, 000 are small living species, insects and reptiles ; 1, 000, 000 are birds ; 3, 000, 000 are beasts and 400, 000 are human species.

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

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 Harivansa Purana, Vasudeva and Nanda were brothers.

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 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 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 the Yoga Vasistha, after inquiring about the realm beyond the universe, heaven, devas and asuras, which is ruled by the mind, Bali thus concentrates on the mind and being satisfied in himself, and teaches the asuras to do so likewise.

According to the Brahma-Vaivarta Puranam, it was Lord Vishnu who positioned Bali in power to curb the pride of Indra.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Hamzah's statement was " a scathing attack that echoed the language of many of the Bali bombers.

According to the 2000 census Hindus consisted 1. 79 % of the total population ( Down from 1. 81 % in 1990 ) with 88. 05 % in Bali ( Down from 93. 18 % in 1990 ) and 5. 89 % in Central Kalimantan ( Down from 15. 75 % in 1990 ,).

According to Alexei Nakamura, as of 2012, there are only 205 Ainu living in Russia ( up from just 12 people who self-identified as Ainu in 2008 ) and they along with the Kurile Kamchadals ( Itelmen of Kuril islands ) are fighting for official recognition.

According to the theory of aerodynamics, a flow is considered to be compressible if its change in density with respect to pressure is non-zero along a streamline.

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

According to New Testament scholar Daniel Wallace, the theme may be stated pragmatically as “ Christians, get along with each other!

According to Reinhardt, a successful brass embouchure depends on a motion wherein the performer moves both the mouthpiece and lips as a single unit along the teeth in an upward and downward direction.

According to the Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

According to Friedman, " these two rejections were devastating to the man who had made a career of demonstrating American ideals in film ", along with his directing award-winning documentary films for the Army.

According to the Book of the Dead, departed souls would undergo a literal journey to reach Heaven, along the way to which there could exist hazards and other entities attempting to deny the reaching of Heaven.

According to a 2006 report by rival Fatah party, Hamas had smuggled between several hundred and 1, 300 tons of advanced rockets, along with other weaponry, into Gaza.

According to historian Bernard Lewis, Islamism, ( or as he terms it " activist " Islam ), along with " quietism ," form two " particular ... political traditions " in Islam.

According to the Qur ’ ān, he was, along with Caleb, one of the two believing spies whom Moses had sent to spy the land of Canaan.

According to the Zohar, a foundational text for kabbalistic thought, Torah study can proceed along four levels of interpretation ( exegesis ).

According to cryptozoologists Loren Coleman and Patrick Huyghe, authors of the Field Guide to Lake Monsters, " African guides found large, unexplained tracks along the bank of a river and later in a swamp the team heard mysterious roars, which had no resemblance with any known animal ".

According to legend, the Armenian-born Saint Servatius, bishop of Tongeren, died in Maastricht in 384 and was buried there along the Roman road, outside the castrum.

According to Māori legend, Aoraki was a young boy who, along with his three brothers, were the sons of Rakinui, the Sky Father.

According to Chee Soo in The Tao of Long Life, natural dietary therapy, or ch ' ang ming, has been developed in China since prehistoric times, along with a range of health arts that have become what we now know as traditional Chinese medicine, or TCM.

According to a US Department of State report on human rights practices, the government of North Korea often punishes the family of a criminal along with the perpetrator.

:: According to Acts, Paul began working along the traditional Jewish line of proselytizing in the various synagogues where the proselytes of the gate

According to the apocryphal Acts of Peter ( Vercelli Acts XXXV ), Peter is fleeing from likely crucifixion in Rome at the hands of the government, and along the road outside the city he meets a risen Jesus.

According to a recent report by the European Commission, Slovakia ( along with some other Central and Eastern European economies ) is low down on the list of EU states in the area of innovation ( Slovakia ranks 22nd ).

According to Donald Morris in this mourning period Shaka ordered that no crops should be planted during the following year, no milk ( the basis of the Zulu diet at the time ) was to be used, and any woman who became pregnant was to be killed along with her husband.

According to his son, Mehmood, along with other scientists and engineers, eye-witnessed the Indo-Pak War of 1971, and had locked himself in his room where he cried for two days over the loss of East Pakistan.

According to former CIA Near East Division Chief James Chritchfield, after al-Bakr and Saddam seized power in 1968, " America slowly developed, not a hostility, but enormous reservations about the ability of the Ba ' ath to constructively bring Iraq along.

According to Hungarian tradition, Pope Silvester II, with the consent of Otto III, Holy Roman Emperor, sent a magnificent jeweled gold crown to Stephen along with an apostolic cross and a letter of blessing officially recognizing Stephen as the Christian king of Hungary.

According to the Tax Foundation, the most important factor driving changes in Tax Freedom Day from year to year is growth in incomes, as the progressive structure of the U. S. federal tax system causes taxes as a percentage of income to rise along with inflation.