They are generally classified by whether they tend to purity, ignorance, or passion, and are regarded as Friendly Treatises, appropriate for the masses, as opposed to Commanding Treatises like the Vedas.  
One can find descriptions of the reigns of the Manus, histories of the Solar and Lunar dynasties, and accounts of the creation of the universe in them.  They are generally classified by whether they tend to purity, ignorance, or passion, and are regarded as Friendly Treatises, appropriate for the masses, as opposed to Commanding Treatises like the Vedas.  Composed beginning around 400 B.C. and attributed to Veda-Vyasi they comprise some 400,000 couplets most of which are in the eighteen major ones.  FTP, name these Hindu scriptures, including the Skanda, Vishnu, and Bagavata, concerning the power and deeds of the gods.
One can find descriptions of the reigns of the Manus, histories of the Solar and Lunar dynasties, and accounts of the creation of the universe in them.  
Puranas