Purana

Purana (Sanskrit: , meaning "belonging to ancient or olden times") is the name of an ancient Indian genre (or a group of related genres) of Hindu or Jain literature (as distinct from oral tradition). They primarily are post-Vedic texts containing a narrative of the history of the Universe, from creation to destruction, genealogies of the kings, heroes and demigods, and descriptions of Hindu cosmology, philosophy and geography.
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Noun
1. a body of 18 works written between the first and 11th centuries and incorporating legends and speculative histories of the universe and myths and customary observances
(hypernym) Sanskrit literature

(n.)
One of a class of sacred Hindoo poetical works in the Sanskrit language which treat of the creation, destruction, and renovation of worlds, the genealogy and achievements of gods and heroes, the reigns of the Manus, and the transactions of their descendants. The principal Puranas are eighteen in number, and there are the same number of supplementary books called Upa Puranas.
  

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