Puranas

Purana - Hindu scriptures. Article “Puranas” in English Wikipedia has 100 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 232 references and 25 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Puranas” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 6 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Puranas”, its content was written by 387 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1127 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 3594 times in English Wikipedia (7481^st place) and cited 12692 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #5406 in November 2023
• Global: #5309 in January 2013

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #25383 in September 2023
• Global: #25878 in September 2023

There are 41 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Puranas		100
2	Hindi (hi) पुराण		69.9346
3	Catalan (ca) Purana (hinduisme)		54.0022
4	Russian (ru) Пураны		48.0425
5	Ukrainian (uk) Пурани		45.3642
6	German (de) Puranas		43.4759
7	Tamil (ta) புராணம்		43.2837
8	Chinese (zh) 往世书		40.9138
9	Spanish (es) Purana		39.0462
10	French (fr) Purana		37.6654

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Puranas" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Puranas		4 528 962
2	Hindi (hi) पुराण		1 573 156
3	Russian (ru) Пураны		351 187
4	Spanish (es) Purana		313 365
5	Indonesian (id) Purana		221 400
6	Tamil (ta) புராணம்		161 200
7	German (de) Puranas		160 720
8	Italian (it) Purāṇa		109 072
9	French (fr) Purana		107 521
10	Chinese (zh) 往世书		100 795

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Puranas" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Puranas		18 148
2	Hindi (hi) पुराण		4 264
3	Russian (ru) Пураны		1 274
4	Tamil (ta) புராணம்		499
5	Chinese (zh) 往世书		487
6	Spanish (es) Purana		477
7	German (de) Puranas		379
8	French (fr) Purana		355
9	Italian (it) Purāṇa		345
10	Japanese (ja) プラーナ文献		332

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Puranas" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Puranas		387
2	Hindi (hi) पुराण		91
3	Italian (it) Purāṇa		71
4	German (de) Puranas		66
5	French (fr) Purana		60
6	Dutch (nl) Purana's		53
7	Russian (ru) Пураны		45
8	Hungarian (hu) Puránák		37
9	Norwegian (no) Puranaene		32
10	Tamil (ta) புராணம்		32

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Puranas" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Hindi (hi) पुराण		2
2	English (en) Puranas		1
3	Spanish (es) Purana		1
4	Japanese (ja) プラーナ文献		1
5	Malay (ms) Purana		1
6	Arabic (ar) بورانا		0
7	Bulgarian (bg) Пурана		0
8	Catalan (ca) Purana (hinduisme)		0
9	Czech (cs) Purány		0
10	German (de) Puranas		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Puranas" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Puranas		3 594
2	Hindi (hi) पुराण		895
3	Tamil (ta) புராணம்		819
4	Russian (ru) Пураны		705
5	French (fr) Purana		543
6	Japanese (ja) プラーナ文献		501
7	Ukrainian (uk) Пурани		479
8	Indonesian (id) Purana		476
9	Spanish (es) Purana		473
10	Persian (fa) پوراناها		384

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic بورانا
bg	Bulgarian Пурана
ca	Catalan Purana (hinduisme)
cs	Czech Purány
de	German Puranas
el	Greek Πουράνες
en	English Puranas
eo	Esperanto Puranoj
es	Spanish Purana
et	Estonian Puraanad
eu	Basque Purana
fa	Persian پوراناها
fi	Finnish Puranat
fr	French Purana
hi	Hindi पुराण
hu	Hungarian Puránák
hy	Armenian Պուրաններ
id	Indonesian Purana
it	Italian Purāṇa
ja	Japanese プラーナ文献
ka	Georgian პურანები
ko	Korean 푸라나
lt	Lithuanian Puranos
ms	Malay Purana
nl	Dutch Purana's
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Purana
no	Norwegian Puranaene
pl	Polish Purany
pt	Portuguese Purana
ru	Russian Пураны
simple	Simple English Puranas
sk	Slovak Purány
sv	Swedish Puranas
ta	Tamil புராணம்
th	Thai ปุราณะ
tr	Turkish Puranalar
uk	Ukrainian Пурани
ur	Urdu پران
uz	Uzbek Purana
vi	Vietnamese Puranas
zh	Chinese 往世书

Best Rank

English: #25383 09.2023

Global: #25878 09.2023

Best Rank

English: #5406 11.2023

Global: #5309 01.2013

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