A eulogistic text focusing on a shrine or group of shrines and the holy place where it is situated. The texts serve to confer sanction and antiquity to the shrines by cross-linking the historical and  Puranic places, people and shrines. While some are attributed to anidentifiable historical individual, many are attributed to sages. Found in Sanskrit, Kannada, Telugu and Tamil. Also purāṇa(m), mahātmya(m), Kṣetrapurāṇa(m).