A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam
A PROSE ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF VISHNUPURĀNAM
hindu
A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam
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- hindu.vishnu_purana.dutt_gutenberg
- alternate titles
- Vishnu Purana, Visnu Purana
- text status
- complete
- tradition
- hindu
- culture
- puranic_hinduism_later_translation
- region
- south_asia
- source language
- Sanskrit
- text language
- English
- date range
- purana compiled c. 300-500 CE from older material; Dutt prose translation (based on Wilson) published 1894
- source type
- text
- provenance · source id
- source.project_gutenberg.66208
- provenance · edition
- Project Gutenberg plain-text eBook #66208 (Calcutta 1894 edition, based on H. H. Wilson's 1840 translation)
- provenance · translator
- Manmatha Nath Dutt
- provenance · publication year
- 1894
- provenance · publisher
- Project Gutenberg
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- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/66208
- provenance · access date
- 2026-07-18
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- public_domain
- rights · jurisdiction
- US
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- allowed
- rights · full text
- allowed
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- normalized
- transcription · complete
- true
- transcription · corrections
- transcription · omissions
- Distributor header, license footer, start/end markers, and production boilerplate were removed., Raw source capture is preserved under imports/raw for auditability.
- tags
- vishnu_purana, purana, cosmogony, avatara, yugas
- motifs
- cyclical_creation_dissolution, divine_descent_avatara, devotee_persecuted_and_saved, world_ages_decline, cosmic_dream_of_god
- figures
- Vishnu, Prahlada, Krishna, Parasara, Maitreya
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- texts/public-domain/hindu/project-gutenberg/vishnupuranam-dutt.md