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The Vishnu Purana

by Horace Hayman Wilson | 1840 | 287,946 words | ISBN-10: 8171102127

Hinduism Purana
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The English translation of the Vishnu Purana. This is a primary sacred text of the Vaishnava branch of Hinduism. It is one of the eighteen greater Puranas, a branch of sacred Vedic literature which was first committed to writing during the first millennium of the common era. Like most of the other Puranas, this is a complete narrative from the cr...

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Chapter I - Maitreya inquires of his teacher (Parashara)
Chapter II - Prayer of Parashara to Vishnu
Chapter III - Measure of time, Moments of Kashthas, etc.
Chapter IV - Narayana appearance, in the beginning of the Kalpa, as the Varaha (boar)
Chapter V - Vishnu as Brahma creates the world
Chapter VI - Origin of the four castes
Chapter VII - Production of the mind-born sons of Brahma
Chapter VIII - Origin of Rudra: his becoming eight Rudras
Sacrifice of Dakṣa (From the Vāyu Purāṇa)
Chapter IX - Legend of Lakshmi
Chapter X - The descendants of the daughters of Daksa married to the Rsis
Chapter XI - Legend of Dhruva, the son of Uttanapada
Chapter XII - Dhruva commences a course of religious austerities
Chapter XIII - Posterity of Dhruva
Chapter XIV - Descendants of Prithu
Chapter XV - The world overrun with trees; they are destroyed by the Pracetasas
Chapter XVI - Inquiries of Maitreya respecting the history of Prahlada
Chapter XVII - Legend of Prahlada
Chapter XVIII - Hiranyakasipu's reiterated attempts to destroy his son
Chapter XIX - Dialogue between Prahlada and his father
Chapter XX - Visnu appears to Prahlada
Chapter XXI - Families of the Daityas
Chapter XXII - Dominion over different provinces of creation assigned to different beings
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