According to Puranas, Daksha had 24 daughters from his wife Prasuti and another 60 from his wife Panchajani ( Virini ).

According to the Mahabharat and the Puranas, Draupadi was regarded as the most beautiful and virtuous of all women at the time.

According to the Puranas, Lord Vishnu stayed on the earth for some time in the Avatar of Swetha Varaham and rose out of pushkarini as Swayambhuva.

According to the Puranas, Lord Vishnu raised in the Avatar of Swetha Varaham from Pushkarini.

According to the Puranas the Guptas ruled over territories ( referred to as Janapadas ) such as Prayag ( Allahabad ), Saket ( Oudh ) and Magadh ( south Bihar ).

According to the Puranas, the Magadha Empire was established by the Brihadratha Dynasty, who was the sixth in line from Emperor Kuru of the Bharata dynasty through his eldest son Sudhanush.

According to the Puranas, Tara sired or mothered child named Budha ( God of Mercury ) through Chandra ( Soma ).

# According to the Puranas, on this day Surya ( Sun ) visits the house of his son Shani ( Saturn ), who is the lord of the Makar rashi ( Zodiac Capricorn ).

According to the Puranas, they were named after Taksha and Pushkara, the two sons of Bharata, a prince of Ayodhya.

According to the Puranas, during the meeting of Brahma and Shiva at top of Mount Kailash Brahma failed to show the due respect to Shiva.

According to the Puranas, this country is known as Bharatavasha after the king Bharata Chakravarti.

According to the Puranas, Shishunaga was succeeded by his son Kakavarna and according to the Sinhala chronicles by his son Kalashoka.

According to the Puranas, the genealogy of the 7th Manu, Vaivasvata is as follows:

According to the Mahabharata and the Puranas, he was the eldest of the five sons of Vasu, the Kuru king of Chedi and his queen Girika.

According to the Hindu scriptures known as the Puranas, Kayasthas are descended from Chitragupta Maharaj, the deity responsible for recording the deeds of humanity, upholding the rule of law and judging whether human beings go to heaven or hell upon death.

According to the Puranas, Ayodhya was the capital of Kosala during the reign of Ikshvaku and his descendants.

According to some interpretations of the Puranas, the Satavahana family belonged to the Andhra-jati (" tribe ") and was the first Deccanese dynasty to build an empire in daksinapatha ( southern region ).

According to the Puranas he was succeeded by Devavarman.

According to the Puranas, he was the successor of Salisuka Maurya and reigned for seven years.

According to the Puranas, he was the successor of Devavarman Maurya and reigned for eight years.

According to the Puranas this yuga ended at the moment when Krishna returned to his eternal abode of Vaikuntha.

According to the Puranas and other sources, they reigned for 112 years.

According to the Puranas, Kurukshetra is named after King Kuru, the ancestor of Kauravas and Pandavas, as depicted in epic Mahabharata.

According to the Mahabharata, a number of Puranas and the Harivamsha Vanga was one of the adopted sons of king Vali who founded the Vanga Kingdom.

According to Shaiva guru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami ( 1927 – 2001 ), Ardhanarishvara signifies that the great Shiva is " All, inseparable from His energy " ( i. e. his Shakti ) and is beyond gender.

He wrote a number of books and articles on sexual magic and various other esoteric studies, including The Yoga of Power: Tantra, Shakti, and the Secret Way ( 1949 ), Eros and the Mysteries of Love: The Metaphysics of Sex ( 1958 ), Meditations on the Peaks: Mountain Climbing as Metaphor for the Spiritual Quest ( 1974 ), The Path of Enlightenment According to the Mithraic Mysteries ( 1977 ).

According to another school of thought, the word Tripura may have originated from Tripura Sundari, the presiding deity of the Tripura Sundari Temple at Udaipur, famous as one of the 51 Shakti Peethas ( pilgrimage centres of Shakti worshippers of Hinduism ).

According to these texts, Jagannath is Maha Bhairav, and Goddess Vimala is the Shakti.

According to Linga Puran, Bhimasankar temple in Bhimpur is around 100 km from Rayagada and around 30 km from Gunupur is one of the Jyotirling, situated at the western part of the holy Mahendragiri mountains and at the river bank of Mahendratanaya ( which is also believed as the Daakini area by many historian ), was excavated in 1974, having quadrangular Shakti around the Linga and decorated by a Upavita as per the puran.

In March 2005, India TV released a video, allegedly showing Shakti Kapoor asking for sexual favor from an undercover reporter posing as an aspiring actress, in return for entry into the film industry. Where he told the undercover reporter " I want to make love to you .... kiss you " According to India TV, this was a sting operation to expose the phenomenon of casting couch prevalent in Bollywood.

According to these writings, a Shakti Peetha is a place associated with Shakti, the goddess of power.

According to Cassius Dio, living Emperors could be worshipped as divine in the east and dead Emperors could be worshipped as divine in Rome.

According to Suetonius, Domitian worshipped Minerva as his protector goddess with superstitious veneration.

According to Alcuin's Life of St. Willebrord, the saint visited an island between Frisia and Denmark that was sacred to Fosite and was called Fositesland after the god worshipped there.

According to these thinkers, the ancients worshipped natural phenomena such as fire and air, gradually coming to describe them as gods.

According to Geoffrey Keating's 17th century History of Ireland, Ériu, Banba, and Fódla worshipped Badb, Macha, and the Morrígan respectively.

According to the historian Adhemar, ' As Rollo's death drew near, he went mad and had a hundred Christian prisoners beheaded in front of him in honour of the gods whom he had worshipped, and in the end distributed a hundred pounds of gold around the churches in honour of the true God in whose name he had accepted baptism.

" According to Hillis, Kilmer's fellow soldiers had accorded him much respect for his battlefield demeanour —" He was worshipped by the men about him.

According to the Spartans, however, the image of Artemis was transported by them to Laconia, where the goddess was worshipped as Artemis Orthia.

According to Seathrún Céitinn she worshipped Macha, who is also sometimes named as a daughter of Ernmas.

According to Seathrún Céitinn she worshipped the Mórrígan, who is also sometimes named as a daughter of Ernmas.

According to Father Bernabé Cobo, writing in the mid-sixteenth century, the moon was worshipped because of her " admirable beauty " and the " benefits she bestows upon the world ".

According to these same late sources, the shrew was worshipped at Buto.

According to Macrobius citing Nigidius Figulus and Cicero, Janus and Jana ( Diana ) are a pair of divinities, worshipped as Apollo or the sun and moon, whence Janus received sacrifices before all the others, because through him is apparent the way of access to the desired deity.

According to local native traditions, the sigomaztecs worshipped a god called Marzupitcoatl whose statues have a distinct resemblance to the most prominent member of Palombian fauna, Marsupilami.

According to Procopius, these Slavs worshipped a single deity, who crafted lightning and thunder.

According to Thietmar of Merseburg, Svarožič ( Latinized Zuarasici ) was worshipped by a tribe of Ratars in the city of Ridegost ( Rethra ).

According to Eckankar doctrine, the Living ECK Master is respected, but not worshipped, by followers of Eckankar and is seen as a spiritual guide for their own spiritual progress.

According to Karen Armstrong, the sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal, who was worshipped as the greatest of the 360 idols the Kaaba contained, which probably represented the days of the year.

According to Ibn Al-Kalbi, the image was first set up by Khuzaymah ibn-Mudrikah ibn-al-Ya's ' ibn-Mudar, but another tradition, record by Ibn Ishaq, holds that Amr ibn Luhayy, a leader of the Khuza ' a tribe, put an image of Hubal into the Kaaba, where it was worshipped as one of the chief deities of the tribe.

According to the Sun's movement, the days from this day onwards become lengthy and warmer and so the Sun-God is worshipped as a great benefactor.

According to the ancient Greek traveller Pausanias, there was a temple in ancient Corinth where the goddesses Ananke and Bia ( meaning violence or violent haste ) were worshipped together in the same shrine.

According to the Agamas, the स ् थ ू लम ू र ् त ि / ब ि म ् बम ू र ् त ि ( bimbamurti, corporeal idol ) is different from the मन ् त ् रम ू र ् त ि ( mantramurti, the idol with power ), which is worshipped in classical temples.

According to some scholars, Subhadra, who is worshipped along with Jagannath, is the Goddess Durga.