Narada Purana or Naradeya Purana is one of the eighteen Puranas that is related by Narada and gives an account of the Vrihas Kalpa. Narada Purana is a religious Hindu text.

Narada Purana deals with the places of pilgrimages. It relates with a style of dialogue between the sage Narad and Sanat Kumar. When they were communicating Narada explained to Sanat Kumar that the major places of pilgrimages are the location and significance.

Narada Purana contains a number of prayers addressed to one or other form of that divinity; a variety of observances and holidays connected with his adoration. This Narada Purana has different legends, some perhaps of an early, others of a more recent date, illustrative of the efficacy of devotion to Hari.

There are the stories of Dhruva and Prahlad, the latter told in the words of the Vishnu Purana. The second portion of it is occupied with a legend of Mohini, the will-born daughter of a king called Rukmangada. It is beguiled by whom the king offers to perform for her whatever she may desire. She calls upon him either to violate the rule of fasting on the eleventh day of the fortnight, a day sacred to Vishnu, or to put his son to death. He kills his son, as the lesser sin of the two. This shows the spirit of the work. Its date may also be inferred from its tenor; as such monstrous extravagancies in praise of Bhakti are certainly of modern origin.

In one of the stories of Markandeya in which Markandeya is a son of Sage Mrikandu, who is born with the grace of Lord Vishnu. He become as very great devotee of Lord Vishnu and composed a Purana, which goes by his name as Markandeya Purana. Vishnu grants him a boon so that Markandeya lives eternally, so much so that he even survives the Pralaya, which is the end of cosmic cycle.