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THE VISHŃU PURÁŃA, A SYSTEM OF HINDU MYTHOLOGY AND TRADITION, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSCRIT, AND ILLUSTRATED BY NOTES DERIVED CHIEFLY FROM OTHER PURÁŃAS, BY H. H. WILSON, M. A. F.RŚ. MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, AND OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF BENGAL AND PARIS; OF THE IMPERIAL SOCIETY OF NATURALISTS, MOSCOW; OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES OF BERLIN AND MUNICH; PHIL. DR. IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BRESLAU AND BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSCRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; &c. &c. &c. LONDON, PUBLISHED BY JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. [1840] Scanned, proofed and formatted at sacred-texts.com, February 2006, by John Bruno Hare. This text is in the public domain in the US because it was published prior to 1923. Click to view (click icon to view) OXFORD, PRINTED BY T. COMBE, PRINTER TO THE UNIVERSITY. Click to view VERSO (click icon to view) TO THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY H. H. WILSON, IN TESTIMONY OF HIS VENERATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY, AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE DISTINCTION CONFERRED UPON HIM BY HIS ADMISSION AS A MEMBER, AND HIS ELECTION TO THE BODEN PROFESSORSHIP OF THE SANSCRIT LANGUAGE. OXFORD, Feb. 10, 1840.