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From the Vishnu Purana |
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Manmatha Nath Dutt made a prose English translation of the Vishnu Purana. A reprint of it appeared in 1972.
The Vishnu Purana is part of Unesco's world heritage of literature. The work marked by simplicity, and covers topic of long-lived interest too. A Purana is a text (from centuries ago) and treats these five subjects:
The Vishnu Purana is thought to be one of the oldest of the dozens of Hindu Puranas. It was supposedly composed in the first or second century AD - or possibly as late as the 300s AD - and is devoted to god Vishnu, which is also Krishna.
The work is said to contain some twenty-three thousand slokas, but the actual number of verses it contains is less than seven thousand. It is a dialogue between Parashara and his disciple Maitreya, and divided into six parts.
The work abounds in stories. Its author is said to be Vyasa. There is more on Vyasa in the introduction to the Uddhava Gita.
Vip: Dutt, Manmatha. Vishnupuranam. 2nd ed. Varanasi: Chowkhamba, 1972.
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