Narrative

World of gods

• cosmology
• divine beings (pantheon)

Sacred history

• creation and destruction (visarga/nirodha)
• Manu cycles (manv-antara)
• cyclic ages (catur-yuga)

Heroes

• speakers of narratives
• Mahābhārata – Kṛṣṇa and his entourage
• Viṣṇu incarnations and their entourage
• devotees (mahājana/bhāgavata)
• heroes of the Purāṇic stories

Geography

• lands
• rivers
• mountains

Nature

• flora
• fauna

Science

• astronomy (time division, planets, constellations)
• calendar
• mathematics
• low (dharma)
• Schools of Indian philosophy (darśana)