puranas - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

The five “signs” or topics that characterize these texts include a discussion of the creation of the universe, its destruction, and the reigns of the “solar” and “lunar” dynasties. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name these texts that are divided into “major” or “Maha” and the more minor “Upa” classifications. Skanda is the namesake of the largest of these texts.

ANSWER: puranas [accept Mahapuranas; accept Upapuranas; accept the Skanda Purana]

[10h] Another of the five signs of the puranas is the discussion of these fourteen rulers, who rule during a single kalpa. One of these figures named Vaivasvata was saved by a little fish he kept in a water jar.

ANSWER: manus [accept [accept Vaivasvata Manu]

[10e] In Hindu cosmology, a single manu rules over a period of 71 yugas, the last of which is one named for this goddess. A garland of skulls adorns the neck of this goddess who was born from Durga’s rage.

ANSWER: Kali [or Kalika; accept Kali Yuga]

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California (North)	Main Site	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	10	13.00	90%	30%	10%
Florida	Main Site	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	5	16.00	100%	40%	20%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	8.89	78%	11%	0%
Midwest	Main Site	Y	8	8.75	88%	0%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	11.67	83%	0%	33%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
South Central	Main Site	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	7	10.00	86%	14%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	12	8.33	75%	8%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	11.25	75%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main Site	Y	4	7.50	75%	0%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	10	0	10	20
Berkeley D	Berkeley B	0	0	10	10
Berkeley C	Stanford B	10	0	10	20
UC Santa Barbara	UC Irvine	0	0	10	10
UCLA A	Arizona State	10	0	10	20
UCSD A	UCLA B	10	0	10	20
Toronto B	Carleton University	0	0	10	10
Guelph	Waterloo B	0	0	10	10
McGill B	Western C	0	0	10	10
McMaster B	Brock	0	0	0	0
Waterloo A	Ottawa	10	0	10	20
Simon Fraser	Queen's	0	0	10	10
Toronto D	Toronto C	0	0	10	10
McMaster A	Toronto F	0	0	10	10
UBC A	Western A	10	10	10	30
Toronto Metropolitan	Western B	10	0	10	20
Florida B	Central Florida A	0	0	10	10
Florida A	Central Florida B	0	0	10	10
Florida C	Central Florida C	0	0	10	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	10	10	10	30
Ohio State A	Michigan C	0	0	10	10
CWRU A	Ohio State B	0	0	10	10
CWRU B	Ohio State C	10	0	10	20
Pittsburgh	Michigan State	0	0	10	10
NC State A	Duke	0	0	10	10
Virginia Tech B	James Madison A	0	0	10	10
VCU	James Madison B	0	0	10	10
Liberty A	Liberty C	0	0	10	10
Virginia	NC State B	0	0	10	10
North Carolina A	William and Mary	0	0	10	10
Wake Forest	South Carolina A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina C	South Carolina B	10	0	10	20
Liberty B	Virginia Tech A	0	0	0	0
Illinois B	Illinois A	0	0	10	10
Purdue B	Indiana A	0	0	10	10
Chicago A	Indiana B	0	0	10	10
Northwestern C	Chicago E	0	0	10	10
Illinois C	Northwestern D	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame A	Northwestern B	0	0	10	10
Notre Dame B	Chicago D	0	0	0	0
Purdue A	Indiana C	0	0	10	10
Harvard A	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	Bowdoin A	0	0	0	0
Yale	Bowdoin B	0	0	10	10
Dartmouth B	Brandeis A	0	0	10	10
Brown	MIT	0	0	10	10
Claremont	Washington A	0	0	10	10
Iowa State	Missouri B	0	0	10	10
Missouri A	Minnesota A	10	0	10	20
Washington B	Georgia Tech A	0	0	10	10
UCSD B	UCSD C	0	0	10	10
Bruin	Alabama A	0	0	10	10
Louisville B	Alabama B	0	0	10	10
Georgia Tech C	Kentucky	0	0	10	10
Mississipi State	Louisville A	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Tennessee B	10	0	10	20
Sewanee	Vanderbilt B	0	0	10	10
WashU B	Georgia Tech B	0	0	10	10
Texas B	Texas A&M A	0	0	10	10
Texas A	Murray State A	0	0	10	10
Imperial B	Birmingham	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Edinburgh A	0	0	10	10
Warwick B	Cardiff	0	0	10	10
UCL	Edinburgh B	0	0	10	10
Imperial A	Bristol	0	0	10	10
Imperial C	City St. George's	10	0	10	20
Durham	LSE	0	0	10	10
Warwick A	Manchester	0	0	10	10
Southampton A	Montpellier	0	0	0	0
Oxford A	Cambridge B	0	0	10	10
Cambridge C	Oxford B	0	0	10	10
Oxford C	Southampton B	0	0	0	0
Georgetown	Columbia A	10	0	10	20
John Jay	Columbia C	0	0	10	10
Maryland B	Johns Hopkins A	0	0	10	10
Johns Hopkins B	Vassar	0	0	10	10
NYU A	Rutgers B	0	10	0	10
NYU B	Maryland C	0	0	10	10
Columbia B	NYU C	0	0	0	0
Rutgers A	Swarthmore	10	0	10	20
Binghamton A	Binghamton B	0	0	0	0
Cornell A	Cornell C	0	0	10	10
RIT	Penn State	0	0	10	10
Cornell B	Rochester	0	0	10	10