Narratives from the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa

Ilā, the first child of Vaivasvata Manu, changes between woman and man, and from Ilā and Budha comes Purūravas of the Lunar line.

Brahmā's śāpa sends the Jaya devatās through seven births across the manvantaras, from the Yāmā devas to the Ādityas, and then frees them.

Jyāmagha brings home a captured girl and calls her his daughter-in-law, though he has no son. Śaibya's tapas then gives them a son, Vidarbha.

The thousand names of Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī, taught by Hayagrīva to Agastya in Chapter 43 of the Lalitopākhyāna in the Brahmāṇḍa Mahā Purāṇa.

The great narrative of Lalitā Mahātripurasundarī in the Brahmāṇḍa Mahā Purāṇa, told by Hayagrīva to Agastya at Kāñcīpura, from her appearance to Śrī Vidyā.

Bhagavān Vishṇu tells the devas, in his own words, how Parameśvara appeared as an endless column of fire before him and Brahmā.

How Brahmā, at the start of the present kalpa, made asuras, devas, pitṛs, humans, serpents, gandharvas and the ṛshis from his own body and mind.

Diti does tapas to win a son who can kill Indra. Indra enters her womb and cuts the child into forty-nine pieces, who become the Maruts.

A deer and a doe meet Paraśurāma at Pushkara. They were once a brahmin and his wife, and they reach Vaikuṇṭha through the Kṛshṇāmṛta-stava.

Bhagavān Śiva drinks the Kālakūṭa poison from the churning of the ocean and holds it in his throat, which turns blue. Brahmā names him Nīlakaṇṭha.

The life of Bhagavān Paraśurāma in the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa: his birth, the death of Jamadagni, the vow against the kshatriyas, Śivaloka and Pushkara.

Paraśurāma goes to Kailāsa to thank Bhagavān Śiva. Gaṇeśa stops him at the gate, and Paraśurāma's axe breaks Gaṇeśa's tusk.

Paraśurāma gives the earth to Kaśyapa and has no land left. Varuṇa draws back the ocean and gives him a 400-yojana strip of coast.

The ten Prācetasas do tapas in the ocean while trees cover the earth. Soma gives them Mārisha, and from her Daksha Prajāpati is born.

King Purūravas visits his ancestors on every amāvāsyā, and Sūta explains how the moon's last kalā feeds the pitṛs and how three piṇḍas reach them.

King Purūravas lives with the apsarā Urvaśī for sixty-four years, loses her when the gandharvas steal her goats, finds her again, and lights the three sacred fires.

Ṛcīka prepares two caru offerings for his wife Satyavatī and her mother; the two are exchanged, and Jamadagni and Viśvāmitra are born.

Kārtavīrya Arjuna asks Jamadagni for the cow Kāmadhenu, Jamadagni is killed, and Paraśurāma vows to end the kshatriya kings twenty-one times.

King Sagara's conquest, the birth of his sixty thousand sons, the lost yajña horse, their end before Kapila, and Aṃśumant's search.

Daksha slights his eldest daughter Satī, she gives up her body by yoga, Rudra speaks the śāpas, and she is born again as Umā.

Śukrācārya inhales smoke for a thousand years to win a mantra from Bhagavān Śiva, while Bṛhaspati takes his form and rules the asuras.

The birth of Kārttikeya, also called Skanda, from the seed of Bhagavān Śiva carried by Agni to the Gaṅgā and born among the reeds.

Bhagavān Kṛshṇa is wrongly blamed for Prasena's death, wins the Syamantaka gem back from Jāmbavān and clears his name before the Yādavas.

Nārāyaṇa takes the form of Varāha, a body made of the yajña, lifts the earth from the waters, and Brahmā then orders the world and the nine creations.

Indra's Aśvamedha leads the ṛshis to object to killing animals. King Vasu rules for it and falls at once into rasātala.

King Yayāti, his wives Devayānī and Śarmishṭhā, Śukrācārya's śāpa of old age, Pūru's gift of youth and Yayāti's teaching on desire.

The apsarā Acchodā loves the ṛshi Amāvasu, is born on earth as Satyavatī, and becomes the wife of Ṛcīka and grandmother of Bhagavān Paraśurāma.

Bhagavān Vishṇu cuts off the head of Bhṛgu's wife for sheltering the asuras, and Bhṛgu's śāpa sends him to be born seven times among humans.

Bhagavān Dhanvantari first rises from the churning of the ocean, then is born as the son of the king of Kāśī to teach Āyurveda in eight branches.

The ṛshi Dīrghatamas, born blind, is found in a river by King Bali and fathers the founders of the five eastern kingdoms.

King Dīvodāsa breaks Nikuṃbha's shrine, the city is cursed and emptied, and Bhagavān Śiva and Pārvatī make Kāśī their Avimukta.

How Gaṅgā came down to earth for Bhagīratha, as the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa tells it in its Pūrva Bhāga and Madhyama Bhāga.

Prahlāda's steady bhakti for Bhagavān Vishṇu, the attempts on his life, and Bhagavān Narasiṃha's coming out of the pillar to slay Hiraṇyakaśipu.