Purana (disambiguation)

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Puran or Purana and similar word Purna can mean:

• Puran or Purna mean 'complete' in Hindi and Sanskrit respectively, in words like Purna avatar, Purna Swaraj and Purna Yoga
• Purana, a type of Hindu Indian literature
  • Mahapurana (Hinduism), the 18 major Puranas
  • Upapuranas, minor Puranas
• Purana (cicada), a genus of cicadas (Homoptera, Cicadidae) indigenous to southeast Asia

• Puran, a subdivision and a tehsil of Shangla District, North-West Frontier Province NWFP, Pakistan
• Puran Appu, 1812–1848, a Sri Lankan historic figure
• Puran Poli, a type of Indian sweet
• Puran Bhagat, a temple at Taragarh near Dinanagar in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India
• Puran Rana Tharu, a Nepalese politician
• Puran Bhatt, a renowned puppeteer of Rajasthan
• Puran Singh Phartyal, Indian politician

• Purana (cicada), a genus of cicadas
  • Purana nebulilinea, a cicada species from southeast Asia
• Purana Mandir, a 1984 Hindi feature film
• Purana Qila, Delhi, an old fort
• Purana Kassapa (c. 5th or 4th centuries BCE), Indian ascetic teacher - contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha
• Purana Task Force, the name of a police investigation into the underworld of Melbourne, Australia
• Purana pul, an old bridge which is a major landmark in Hyderabad, India

• Mahapurana (disambiguation)
• Bhagavata Purana (disambiguation)