bal bhai ki jante chas.i mean u ask ur questns and we wl try to help find the answers.tnx

Shuvo Bijaya!

Q.1
'Hindu' ba 'Hinduism' sobdota kotheke aseche r er mane ki?

subho bijoya to all members.

abt ur questn.c hindu word wasnt given by the early people who practised the 'sanatana dharma' (eternal religion).hindu word was used by persians and other westerners who refered to indus river as sindhu river and people who lived east of indus came to be knwn as hindus (mispro nunciatd frm sindhus by persians).thus watevr religious ideas these people had was coind hinduism.thus the word hindu effectively meant people of bharat or india makin it a secular word.infact indians following any religion are all hindus by tat argument .but due to the british usin the word to refer to people believin in the sanatana dharma it got stuck.hope i may hav answrd u satisfactorily.tnw

Yes u did n in a v. easy way! Thanks a lot!
Nw, if u allow me i wanna ask sum more!

tnx.ya u may ask ur questns.no need to ask for permission bro.

Thnx again!

Q.2
What r da scriptures of Hinduism? What r da Puranas nd how important is da smirities? Plz enlighten me wid der priority...thanx

There are eighteen main
Puranas and an equal number
of subsidiary Puranas or Upa -
Puranas .
The 18 main Puranas are :
Vishnu Purana , Narada
Purana , Srimad Bhagavata
Purana , Garuda (Suparna )
Purana , Padma Purana ,
Varaha Purana , Brahma
Purana , Brahmanda Purana ,
Brahma Vaivarta Purana ,
Markandeya Purana ,
Bhavishya Purana , Vamana
Purana , Matsya Purana ,
Kurma Purana , Linga Purana ,
Siva Purana , Skanda Purana
(Kartika Purana ) and Agni
Purana .
The number of verses in each
Purana is listed in other verses
of the Srimad -Bhagavatam
(12 . 13 . 4 -9 ): The Brahma
Purana consists of ten
thousand verses, the Padma
Purana of fifty -five thousand ,
Sri Visnu Purana of twenty -
three thousand , the Siva
Purana of twenty -four
thousand and Srimad -
Bhagavatam of eighteen
thousand . The Narada Purana
has twenty -five thousand
verses, the Markandeya
Purana nine thousand , the
Agni purana fifteen thousand
four hundred, the Bhavisya
Purana fourteen thousand five
hundred, the Brahma-vaivarta
Purana eighteen thousand and
the Linga Purana eleven
thousand . The Varaha Purana
contains twenty -four thousand
verses, the Skanda Puranas
eight -one thousand one
hundred, the Vamana Purana
fourteen thousand , the
Garuda Purana nineteen
thousand and the Brahmanda
Purana twelve thousand . Thus
the total number of verses in
all the Puranas is four
hundred thousand . Eighteen
thousand of these , once
again , belong to the beautiful
Bhagavatam . .
The 18 Upa-Puranas are :
Sanatkumara , Narasimha,
Brihannaradiya , Sivarahasya,
Durvasa , Kapila , Vamana,
Bhargava, Varuna , Kalika,
Samba , Nandi , Surya,
Parasara , Vasishtha, Devi
Bhagavatam , Ganesa and
Hamsa .
Apart from these there are a
few other other puranas .