Complex sentence: The Christian Puranas--11,000 stanzas of 4 verses--were very popular in the churches of the area where they were sung on special occasions up to the 1930s,though no copy of the original edition is extant it is believed to have been written or published in 1616.
Split into simpler sentences: The Christian Puranas--11,000 stanzas of 4 verses--were very popular in the churches of the area where they were sung on special occasions up to the 1930s. Although no copy of the original edition is extant it is believed to have been written or published in 1616.