Complex sentence: Flood connects the rise of the written Purana historically with the rise of devotional cults centring upon a particular deity in the Gupta era: the Puranic corpus is a complex body of materials that advance the views of various competing cults.
Split into simpler sentences: Flood connects the rise of the written Purana historically with the rise of devotional cults centring upon a particular deity in the Gupta era. The Puranic corpus is a complex body of materials that advance the views of various competing cults.