The Brahmā Purāṇa consists of ten thousand verses, the Padma Purāṇa of fifty-five thousand, Viṣṇu Purāṇa of twenty-three thousand, the Śiva Purāṇa of twenty-four thousand and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam of eighteen thousand. The Nārada Purāṇa has twenty-five thousand verses, the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa nine thousand, the Agni Purāṇa fifteen thousand four hundred, the Bhaviṣya Purāṇa fourteen thousand five hundred, the Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa eighteen thousand and the Liṅga Purāṇa eleven thousand. The Varāha Purāṇa contains twenty-four thousand verses, the Skanda Purāṇa eighty-one thousand one hundred, the Vāmana Purāṇa ten thousand, the Kūrma Purāṇa seventeen thousand, the Matsya Purāṇa fourteen thousand, the Garuḍa Purāṇa nineteen thousand and the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa twelve thousand. Thus the total number of verses in all the Purāṇas is four hundred thousand. Eighteen thousand of these belong to the Bhāgavatam. Trayoviṁśat means twenty-three. Śaivakam means Śiva Purāṇa. Vāhnam means Agni Purāṇa. It has fifteen thousand four hundred verses. Skanda Purāṇa has eighty-one thousand verses. Just as Kṛṣṇa is included in the listing of avatāras since he appears in this world as an avatāra, and yet is distinguished by the words kṛṣṇas tu bhagavān svavyam, so Bhāgavatam is included in the list of Purāṇas since it is also a Purāṇa, but it again mentioned at the end as having eighteen thousand verses, to indicate its role as the emperor among the Purāṇas. Just as the svayam indicates the supreme position of Kṛṣṇa in the First Canto verse, the word śrī with Bhāgavatam indicates that it is the most complete among all Purāṇas.