Varaha Purana

[2] Scholars have questioned whether it really qualifies as a Purana, and whether the extant manuscripts are merely a religious manual largely focussed on Vaishnava practices,[3][4] with sections that also praise Shiva, Shakti and other gods in a secular way.

[2][5] The text also includes mythology of goddesses and Shiva,[4] and a discussion of Karma and Dharma called Dharmasamhita.

[6] A large portion of the text is dedicated to medieval geographic Mahatmya (tourist guides)[7] to temples and sites in Mathura and Nepal, but it lacks adoring Krishna in Mathura-related section of the type found in other Puranas.

[14] The Hindu tradition and other Puranas claim that this text had 24,000 verses;[15] however, surviving manuscripts have less than half that number.

While the contents of the purvabhaga summarized in the Narada text generally correspond to the extant manuscripts of the Varaha Purana, the uttarabhaga summarized in the Narada text is not found in surviving Varaha manuscripts, and presumed lost to history.

[14] According to Rajendra Hazra, the extant text has four distinct sections, differing in interlocutors and general characteristics.