The Agni Purana disclosed to Vasistha by Agni deals with different subjects such as Cosmology, Genealogy, Geography, Astronomy, Astrology, Rituals from marriage to funeral, Omens and Portents, Art and Architecture, Politics, War, Law, Medicine, Prosody, Poetics and Grammar. It describes all the incarnations of Visnu but those of Rama and Krsna in detail

Part of the series "Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology : Mahapuranas/edited by J.L. Shastri and G.P. Bhatt"]