The youngest layer of the text in the Agni Purana may be from the 17th century. The chapters of the text were likely composed in different centuries, with earliest version probably after the 7th-century, but before the 11th century because the early 11th-century Persian scholar Al-Biruni acknowledged its existence in his memoir on India. The published manuscripts are divided into 382 or 383 chapters, containing between 12,000 and 15,000 verses. The text exists in numerous versions, some very different from others. The text is variously classified as a Purana related to Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and Smartism, but also considered as a text that covers them all impartially without leaning towards a particular theology.
The Agni Purana, ( Sanskrit: अग्नि पुराण, Agni Purāṇa) is a Sanskrit text and one of the eighteen major Puranas of Hinduism.
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