Verse 25

²²So the Puranas, which are marked out by these marks, the sages who know the old accounts say are eighteen, counting the small ones and the great ones. ²³The Brahma, the Padma, the Visnu, the Siva, the Linga, and the Garuda with them; the Narada, the Bhagavata, the Agni, and the one named of Skanda; ²⁴the Bhavisya, the Brahmavaivarta, the Markandeya, and the Vamana with them; the Varaha, the Matsya, the Kurma, and the one called of the Egg of Brahma: three sixes in all. ²⁵Brahmin, this laying down of the branches by the sage, and by his pupils and their pupils and theirs after them, has now been told out; it makes the brightness of Brahman grow.