

Later scholarship has established that Vayu and Shiva Puranas are two different texts, but regionally only one of them was considered as a Maha-purana. However, the identity of this text, particularly from the Shiva Purana or Vayaviya Purana, has long been a source of confusion since the 19th-century. Vayu Purana is mentioned in the manuscripts of the Mahabharata and other Hindu texts, which has led scholars to propose that the text is among the oldest in the Puranic genre. It belongs to the Shaivism literature corpus. The Vayu Purana ( Sanskrit : वायु पुराण, Vāyu Purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.
