{"collection":"Hinduism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/hin/vp/vp007.htm","path":"hin/vp/vp007.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/hin/vp/vp007.htm","text":"The Vishnu Purana, translated by Horace Hayman Wilson, [1840]\n3. The Vish\u0144u Pur\u00e1\u0144a\n3. Vish\u0144u Pur\u00e1\u0144a. \"That in which Par\u00e1\u015bara, beginning with the events of the Var\u00e1ha Kalpa, expounds all duties, is called the Vaish\u0144ava; and the learned know its extent to be twenty-three thousand stanzas 41.\" The third Pur\u00e1\u0144a of the lists is that which has been selected for translation, the Vish\u0144u. It is unnecessary therefore to offer any general summary of its contents, and it will be convenient to reserve any remarks upon its character and probable antiquity for a subsequent page. It may here be observed, however, that the actual number of verses contained in it falls far short of the enumeration of the Matsya, with which the Bh\u00e1gavata concurs. Its actual contents are not seven thousand stanzas. All the copies, and in this instance they are not fewer than seven in number, procured both in the east and in the west of India, agree; and there is no appearance of any part being wanting. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end, in both text and comment; and the work as it stands is incontestably entire. How is the discrepancy to be explained?","title":"The Vishnu Purana: Preface: 3. The Vishn\u0301u Pur&aacut...","type":"page"}