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The Bhavishya Purana purports to tell the "history of the future" (Bhavishya भविष्य means the future both in Sanskrit and modern Hindi) and also contains a description of the genesis of the worship of Lords | The Bhavishya Purana purports to tell the "history of the future" (Bhavishya भविष्य means the future both in Sanskrit and modern Hindi) and also contains a description of the genesis of the worship of Lords Vishnu, Shiva and Surya. Like the other puranas much more recent material has been added to the primordial core of orally composed text, and scholars agree that the "prophecies" which it contains are actually examples of ''Vaticinium ex eventu'' "prophecies after the fact", historic events introduced into a "prophetic" text to make it appear to have prophetic powers of future understanding. | ||
==Importance of Bhavishya Purana in Islamic Dawah== | ==Importance of Bhavishya Purana in Islamic Dawah== | ||