The proceedings of the Second Dubrovnik International Conference on the Sanskrit Epics and Puranas under the title Stages and Transitions: temporal and historical frameworks in epic and Puranic literature are a collection of outstanding research papers written by eminent authors or promising young scholars whose results of research presented here as well as their further implications should certainly provoke a keen interest of all those who work in the field. It should also attract the attention of a broader public interested in oral and written literature, history of culture and history of religions because the study of Sanskrit Epics and Puranas provides us with invaluable information for all these areas of research.