Which book is divided into 114 chapters called Suras??
"event is termed Meccan. The Meccan chapters generally deal with faith and scenes of the Hereafter while the Medinan chapters are more concerned with organizing the social life of the nascent Muslim community and leading Muslims to the goal of Dar al-Islam by showing strength. Except for sura ""At-Tawba"", all chapters or suras commence with 'In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate'. This formula is known as the Bismillah and denotes the boundaries between chapters. The chapters are arranged roughly in order of descending size; therefore the arrangement of the Quran is neither chronological nor thematic. Suras (chapters)"
"44 chapters with topics such as Mangal Sutra (on auspiciousness), Atma Sutra (on the soul), Moksha Marga Sutra (on the path to liberation), and is divided into four sections. Its 756 verses are compiled from Jain scriptures. Whence, as sourced, the textual content originates from the same age as the scripture it consolidates (printed over the years in English, Gujarati, Hindi, and Italian). Whether it has been widely distributed and taught among sects, in place of traditional texts (which vary to the extent an oral tradition has been considered lost or not), Jain scholars have maintained that this work embodies"
"and 11th centuries CE. Nevertheless, the title ""Muppāl"" remained the work's primary name until the 13th century CE. It is estimated that the Kural has historically been known by as many as 44 names given at various periods over the millennia, making it one of the numerously titled works. The Kural is structured into 133 chapters, each containing 10 couplets (or kurals), for a total of 1,330 couplets. The 133 chapters are grouped into three parts, or ""books"": Each ""kural"" or couplet contains exactly seven words, known as ""cir""s, with four ""cir""s on the first line and three on the"
"Sutra"" is also known as ""Chandah sastra"", or ""Pingala Sutras"" after its author Pingala. It is the oldest Hindu treatise on prosody to have survived into the modern era. This text is structured in 8 books, with a cumulative total of 310 sutras. It is a collection of aphorisms predominantly focussed on the art of poetic metres, and presents some mathematics in the service of music. The 11th-century bhashya on Pingala's ""Chandah Sutra"" by Ratnakarashanti, called ""Chandoratnakara"", added new ideas to Prakrit poetry, and this was influential to prosody in Nepal, and to the Buddhist prosody culture in Tibet where"
"34 chapters, and the second by around 699 in 80 scrolls with 40 chapters. There is also a translation of the ""Gaṇḍavyūha"" section by Prajñā around 798. The second translation includes more sutras than the first, and the Tibetan translation, which is still later, includes many differences with the 80 scrolls version. Scholars conclude that sutras were being added to the collection. The single extant Tibetan version was translated from the original Sanskrit by Jinamitra et al. at the end of ninth century. According to Paramārtha, a 6th-century monk from Ujjain in central India, the ""Avataṃsaka Sūtra"" is also called"
"64 sections, organised into 7 books. This statement is included in the opening chapter of the text, a common practice in ancient Hindu texts likely included to prevent major and unauthorized expansions of a popular text. The text that has survived into the modern era has 67 sections, and this list is enumerated in Book 7 and in Yashodhara's Sanskrit commentary (""bhasya"") on the text. The ""Kamasutra"" uses a mixture of prose and poetry, and the narration has the form of a dramatic fiction where two characters are called the ""nayaka"" (man) and ""nayika"" (woman), aided by the characters called"
"represents a condensed manual of knowledge of a specific field or school. Each ""sutra"" is any short rule, like a theorem distilled into few words or syllables, around which ""teachings of ritual, philosophy, grammar or any field of knowledge"" can be woven. Sutras were compiled to be remembered, used as reference and to help teach and transmit ideas from one generation to the next. The Nyayasutra is divided into five books, each book subdivided into two chapters each. The structure of the text is, states Potter, a layout of ""ahnikas"" or lessons served into daily portions, with portion consisting of"
"text comprises all 114 suras in the order known today. According to Ayatollah Khu'i there is no doubt that Uthman collected the Quran during his time, but not in the sense that he collected the verses and suras in one volume, but in the sense that he united the Muslims on the reading of one authoritative recension. He also argues that the one reading on which Uthman united the Muslims was the one in circulation among most Muslims, and that it reached them through uninterrupted transmission from Muhammad. This is one of the most contested issues and an area where"
"the 2nd-century BCE and the 2nd-century CE. The Brahma Sūtras consist of 555 aphorisms or sūtras, in four chapters (""adhyāya""), with each chapter divided into four parts (""pāda""). Each part is further subdivided into sections called ""Adhikaraņas"" with ""sutras"". Some scholars, such as Francis Clooney, call the ""Adhikaraņas"" as ""case studies"" with a defined hermeneutic process. Each ""Adhikaraņa"" of Brahma-sutra has varying numbers of sutras, and most sections of the text are structured to address the following: The Brahmasutra text has 189 ""Adhikaranas"". Each section (case study) in the text opens with the ""Mukhya"" (chief, main) sutra that states the"
"Yusuf (surah) Sūrat Yūsuf () is the 12th sura (chapter) of the Quran. It has 111 verses. It is said to have been revealed in a single sitting, being unique in this respect. The text narrates the story of Yusuf (the biblical Joseph). While other surahs tend to jump between topics, this sura is special in sticking to its central theme throughout, telling a coherent story in chronological order. The Surah after this is Surah Ar-Ra’d (The thunder). The Surah before this is Surah Hud (Hud) The chapter was first translated into Latin by Thomas van Erpe in 1617 and"
"Shiva Sutras The Shiva Sutras (IAST: ) or """" are fourteen verses that organize the phonemes of Sanskrit as referred to in the of , the foundational text of Sanskrit grammar. Within the tradition they are known as the ', ""recitation of phonemes,"" but they are popularly known as the ""Shiva Sutras"" because they are said to have been revealed to Pāṇini by Shiva. They were either composed by Pāṇini to accompany his ' or predate him. The latter is less plausible, but the practice of encoding complex rules in short, mnemonic verses is typical of the sutra style. Each"
"acts are for the betterment of mankind Verses 34-34: Judgement day is a bookend, emphasizing the need for right practice and submission to God Luqman (surah) Sūrah Luqmān () is the 31st chapter (""surah"") of the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an. It is composed of 34 verses (""ayat"") and takes its title from the mention of the sage Luqman in verses 12–19. It was revealed in the middle of Muhammad's Meccan period, and is thus usually classified as a Meccan sura. The focus of this sura, once broken down into its many elements, can be seen as emphasizing principles of"
"in order to reach the truth. There are three major achievements in this set of books: Through collation, reorganization and addendum, the whole text consists of 4 parts, 7 chapters, 56 samyuktas and 8491 sutras, divided into 3 categories: sutra, geya and vyakarana. The compiling of this set of books is a huge and complex project; the authors did their utmost, taking more than fourteen years to complete it, filling in many gaps in research fields of Samyuktagama and even pre-sectarian Buddhism. This set of books is collated and punctuated correctly, translated accurately, and annotated in detail, not only restoring"
"Suraj Parkash The book Gur Partap Suraj, popularly known as the Suraj Parkash is detailed work of 51,829 verses describing the lives of the last nine Sikh Gurus and Banda Bahadur. It was finished in 1843 by Bhai Santokh Singh. It is a sequel to his own ""Nanak Prakash"", describing the life of the first Guru. The lives of the Gurus, are divided into twelve Raas or sections. The life of the tenth Guru is presented in six Ruts (literally six seasons), and into two Ayans, the ascending and descending phases of the year. The whole work is written Braj"
"complete and in current form by 200 CE, while Nakamura states that ""the great part of the ""Sutra"" must have been in existence much earlier than that."" The book is composed of four chapters, each divided into four quarters or sections. These sutras attempt to synthesize the diverse teachings of the Upanishads. However, the cryptic nature of aphorisms of the ""Brahma Sutras"" have required exegetical commentaries. These commentaries have resulted in the formation of numerous Vedanta schools, each interpreting the texts in its own way and producing its own commentary. Little with specificity is known of the period between the"
"Yusuf shows that a person of high and pure character can overcome severe circumstances and be successful. Yusuf (surah) Sūrat Yūsuf () is the 12th sura (chapter) of the Quran. It has 111 verses. It is said to have been revealed in a single sitting, being unique in this respect. The text narrates the story of Yusuf (the biblical Joseph). While other surahs tend to jump between topics, this sura is special in sticking to its central theme throughout, telling a coherent story in chronological order. The Surah after this is Surah Ar-Ra’d (The thunder). The Surah before this is"
"the Prophets.. Yunus (surah) Sūrat Yūnus (, Jonah) is the 10th chapter (""surah"") of the Qur'an with 109 verses (āyāt). Yūnus is named after the prophet Jonah. Traditionally believed to have been formulated or revealed before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina (Hegira), as such, it is known as a Meccan surah. According to the Islamic tradition, the chapter is predominantly revealed during the Meccan phase (610–622) of Muhammad's prophethood (before his move to Medina), therefore, a Meccan sura. Based on its context, some verses appeared to date to when Muhammad just"
"Luqman (surah) Sūrah Luqmān () is the 31st chapter (""surah"") of the Muslim holy book, the Qur'an. It is composed of 34 verses (""ayat"") and takes its title from the mention of the sage Luqman in verses 12–19. It was revealed in the middle of Muhammad's Meccan period, and is thus usually classified as a Meccan sura. The focus of this sura, once broken down into its many elements, can be seen as emphasizing principles of moderation. The sura uses the mustard seed analogy to emphasize the degree to which God maintains his purview over man's actions, possibly emphasizing the"
"in an inscription at the Varadharaja Perumal Temple at Kanchipuram. Parimelalhagar's commentary is followed ever since as the standard for numbering of the Kural chapters and the couplets within each chapter. Valluvar wrote the Kural literature in three parts, namely, Book I, Book II, and Book III, containing a total of 133 chapters in all, without splitting the books further into any subdivisions. However, later scholars both from the Late Sangam period and from the medieval era divided each book into various divisions known as ""Iyal"" and grouped the chapters variously under each ""iyal""s. They also changed the ordering of"
"is known by the title Tafsir surat Yusuf (Commentary on the Surah of Joseph). It is also known as Ahsan al-Qisas (""The Best of Stories"") and Qayyúmu'l-Asmá' (""Maintainer of the Divine Names""). The work is structured like the ""Qur'an"" itself and divided into 111 chapters each with 42 verses. In addition, each chapter is headed by some combination of mysterious disconnected letters. None of these features had until this time occurred outside of the Qur'an in Islamic literature—at least they had not been used together in a single work. To have done so would have indicated to the reader that"
"the book in 1957. It was published in 1965, five years after his death as 367 pages in forty chapters. Reprints were made in 1975 and 1978 with fewer typographical errors. Several reprints have been made since the 1990s. The book contains sixteen ""sutras"" and fifteen sub-sutras, each of which lists a mental calculation technique. The sixteen ""sutras"" are as follows: Tirthaji claimed that he found the sutras after years of studying the Vedas, a set of sacred ancient Hindu scriptures. However, the Vedas do not contain any of the ""Vedic mathematics"" sutras. First, Tirthaji’s description of the mathematics as"
"Yunus (surah) Sūrat Yūnus (, Jonah) is the 10th chapter (""surah"") of the Qur'an with 109 verses (āyāt). Yūnus is named after the prophet Jonah. Traditionally believed to have been formulated or revealed before the migration of the Islamic prophet Muhammed and his followers from Mecca to Medina (Hegira), as such, it is known as a Meccan surah. According to the Islamic tradition, the chapter is predominantly revealed during the Meccan phase (610–622) of Muhammad's prophethood (before his move to Medina), therefore, a Meccan sura. Based on its context, some verses appeared to date to when Muhammad just started his"
"Saba (surah) Sūrat Sabaʼ (, ""Sheba"") is the 34th chapter (""sura"") of the Qur'an with 54 verses (""ayat""), and is a Meccan sura. It discusses the lives of Solomon and David, a story about the people of Sheba, challenges and warnings against the disbelievers as well as the promises related to the Day of Judgment. The chapter was revealed during the Meccan period of Muhammad's prophethood, therefore, a Meccan sura. Some commentators of the Quran, including Ahmad ibn Ajiba, Mahmud al-Alusi, Ibn al-Jawzi, and Al-Qurtubi opined that the sixth verse was an exception and was revealed in the Medinan period."
"verses. These are divided into two parts, a ""Purva Khanda"" (early section) and an ""Uttara Khanda"" (later section). The ""Purva Khanda"" contains about 229 chapters, but in some versions of the text this section has between 240-243 chapters. The ""Uttara Khanda"" varies between 34 to 49 chapters. The ""Uttara Khanda"" is more often known as ""Pretakhanda"" or ""Pretakalpa"". The Garuda Purana was likely fashioned after the Agni Purana, the other major medieval India encyclopedia that has survived. The text's structure is idiosyncratic, in that it is a medley, and does not follow the theoretical structure expected in a historic Puranic"
"also acknowledge and analyze the various Vedic schools, and mentions the existence of multiple, diverging versions of the same underlying text. The sutras of the Brahmasutra are aphorisms, which Paul Deussen states to be ""threads stretched out in weaving to form the basis of the web"", and intelligible ""when the woof is added"" with a commentary. The first chapter is regarded in Vedanta tradition as ""Samanvaya"" (Harmony), because it distills, synchronizes and brings into a harmonious whole the seemingly diverse and conflicting passages in various Sruti texts. It consists of 134 sutras, with eleven ""Adhikaranas"" in the first ""Pada"", seven"
"Jaimini Sutras Jaimini Sutras, also called as Upadesa Sutras is an ancient Sanskrit text on the predictive part of Hindu astrology, attributed to Maharishi Jaimini, the founder of the Purva Mimamsa branch of Hindu philosophy, a disciple of Rishi Vyasa and son of Parashara. It comprises nine hundred and thirty-six sutras or aphorisms arranged in four chapters, and though having several distinct features of its own, the Jaimini System, which is a unique system, appears as an offshoot of the Parashari System only; where ever it deviates, it is not found to be in conflict with the Parashari system, and"
"Al-Insan Sūrat al-Insān (, “Human”, “Man”) or Sūrat ad-Dahr () is the 76th chapter (sura) of the Quran with 31 verses (ayat). According to most scholars of the Islamic tradition, the chapter is a Medinan surah, i.e. it was revealed during the Medinan phase of Muhammad's prophethood. Some commentators say that verse 24 was an exception and was revealed in Mecca, and others say that verses 23–31 were revealed in Mecca. Yet others, a minority, say that the entire chapter was revealed in Mecca, thus classifying it as a Meccan surah. Most Shia sources and some Sunni ones linked the"
"Samba Purana The Samba Purana (, ) is one of the Saura Upapuranas. This text is dedicated to Surya. The recension of the text found in the printed editions has 84 chapters. Chapters 53-68 of this text are also divided into 15 s. After the customary beginning in Chapter 1, the text consists the narrative of Krishna's son Samba's getting infected by leprosy, after being cursed by sage Durvasa and consequently getting cured by worshipping Surya in the temple constructed by him in Mitravana on the banks of the Chandrabhaga at what was Multan Sun Temple. The whole narrative is"
"140 couplets on higher yet most fundamental virtue based on grace, benevolence and compassion. All the couplets in the book essentially mandate the ethics of ahimsa (non-violence), meatless diet, casteless human brotherhood, absence of desires, path of righteousness and truth, and so forth. The Book of Aram has been subdivided variously by different scholars. In fact, the chapters in this book have been categorized in more varied order than the other two books of the Kural text. Although the author did not group the chapters under any subdivisions as with the other two books of the Kural text, the Sangam"
"Saura Purana The Saura Purana (, ) is one of the Shaiva Upapuranas, a genre of Hindu religious texts. The printed editions of this text have 69 chapters. The chapter colophons of this text mention it as a part of the Brahma Purana. It is presumed that a version of this text, different from the extant one, existed earlier. The extant Saura Purana, though proclaimed by Surya, eulogises Shiva and his ""shakti"" Parvati. This text praises Varanasi and describes its various sacred places and lingas. It consists of a version of the narrative of Urvasi and Pururavas in chapter 31."
"remove ""mythological content"", which shows Hindu influence and place it in an appendix. The editing has been criticised by some as amounting to ""poetic as well as religious sacrilege"" Suraj Parkash The book Gur Partap Suraj, popularly known as the Suraj Parkash is detailed work of 51,829 verses describing the lives of the last nine Sikh Gurus and Banda Bahadur. It was finished in 1843 by Bhai Santokh Singh. It is a sequel to his own ""Nanak Prakash"", describing the life of the first Guru. The lives of the Gurus, are divided into twelve Raas or sections. The life of"
"Bhadrakalpikasutra Bhadrakalpikasūtra (Sanskrit; ) is a Mahayana sutra with 24 chapters written in c. 200-250 CE, said to have been taught by Gautama Buddha in Vaishali. It includes the names of the 1002 Buddhas of this ""Fortunate Aeon."" The title of this text means the ""Fortunate Aeon Sūtra"". The list of 1002 (or 1004) names starts with: ... and ends with ... It is included in the first volume of the sutra section of the Kangyur of Tibetan Buddhism. It is also available in Chinese, Tibetan, Mongolian, and other languages in variants that differ slightly as to the number of"
"Praise of Tirukkural The Tirukkural (Tamil: திருக்குறள்), shortly known as the Kural, is a classic Tamil sangam treatise on the art of living. Consisting of 133 chapters with 1330 couplets or kurals, it deals with the everyday virtues of an individual. Authored by Valluvar between the third and first centuries BCE, it is considered one of the greatest works ever written on ethics and morality and is praised for its universality and non-denominational nature. The Kural is considered chef d'oeuvre of both Indian and world literature. The universality of the work is expressed by the various other names by which"