EDITED AND PUBLISHED BY
MANMATHA NATH DUTT, M. A., M.R.A.S.,
Rector, Keshub Academy;
Author of the English Translations of the Srimadbhagavatam, Mahabharata, Bhagavat-Gita and other works.
CALCUTTA:
PRINTED BY H. C. DASS,
Elysium Press 65/2 Beadon Street.
1896
PREFACE.
That Purāna in which Parāsara, beginning with the events of Varāha Kalpa, expounds all duties, is called Vaishnava and is said to consist of twenty-three thousand stanzas. But the actual number of verses falls far short of the enumeration of the Matsya and the Bhagavata. Vishnu Purānam consists of all the characteristics of the Purāna, namely, five specified topics and has been divided into six books.