title: Purana (disambiguation)
text: # Purana (disambiguation)
  
  Puran or Purana and similar word Purna can mean:
  
  * Puran or Purna mean 'complete' in Hindi and Sanskrit respectively, in words like Purna avatar, Purna Swaraj and Purna Yoga.
  * Purana, a type of Hindu Indian literature
  * Purana (cicada), a genus of cicadas (Homoptera, Cicadidae) indigenous to southeast Asia
  
  ## Puran
  
  * Puran, a subdivision and a tehsil of Shangla District, North-West Frontier Province NWFP, Pakistan
  * Puran Appu, 1812–1848, a Sri Lankan historic figure
  * Puran Poli, a type of Indian sweet
  * Puran Bhagat, a temple at Taragarh near Dinanagar in Gurdaspur district, Punjab, India
  * Puran Rana Tharu, a Nepalese politician
  * Puran Bhatt, a renowned puppeteer of Rajasthan
  * Puran Singh Phartyal, Indian politician
  
  ## Purana
  
  * Purana (cicada), a genus of cicadas
     * Purana nebulilinea, a cicada species from southeast Asia
  * Purana Mandir, a 1984 Hindi feature film
  * Purana Qila, Delhi, an old fort
  * Purana Kassapa (c. 5th or 4th centuries BCE), Indian ascetic teacher - contemporaneous with Mahavira and the Buddha
  * Purana Task Force, the name of a police investigation into the underworld of Melbourne, Australia
  * Purana pul, an old bridge which is a major landmark in Hyderabad, India
  