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The 9137 shlokas of this Purana have really no cohesion because mostly they are all Q&As between Vysa and Lomaharshana/ Urgashravs, indeed randomly opening the purana's pages can yield unique insight. This is one of the merits of the Puranas: anyone can pick any chapter and promptly grasp its principles. In these two volumes, the author includes a wealth of footnotes that, in a sense, function as a lexicon of Sanskrit terminologies, but most of these comments require context to make sense.
The author leans on the footnotes to provide a running commentary that enables the reader to understand the context without decelerating because they are usually clear in breaking down the ambiguous narratives in the purana and don't usually seem to have any interpretations to the original texts.The preponderance of the events are transpiring in the Prathame (First section) of the Kaliyuga, rendering it both amusing and extremely disquieting to read the accounts . In conjunction to this, there are values that are interwoven here between the Savarnas and Avarnas, and the place of women and their parameters are expressed in depth.
The properties of the Maya Viksepa Shakti, yoga practise, and Samkhya (Dvaitam) are explored in later sections, along with the implications of Dharma, Artha, and Kama on realising the Ishwara. Part I is therefore finished, and Part II is realised in the form of the Goutami Mahatmya, which underscores the advantages of Tirthas in realising the Supreme. Numerous intangible heritage and landscape of this Mahtmyam have endured the test of time and continue to aid in our understanding of the cultural landscape of the Ganga to the Thamirabarani regions and the qualities of these landscapes to help jiva break free from the cycle of samsara.
