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The Visnu Purana : Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, McComas.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Puranas. Viṣṇupurāṇa--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Puranas.
- Puranas. Viṣṇupurāṇa.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (578 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Visnu Purana
- Place of Publication:
- Canberra ANU Press 2021
- Canberra : ANU Press, 2021.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Viṣṇu is a central deity in the Hindu pantheon, especially in his manifestation as the seductive cattle-herding youth, Kṛṣṇa. The purāṇas are sacred texts, which, as the Sanskrit name implies, are collections of narratives from 'long ago'.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Book one : Creation
- Book two : The World
- Book three : Society
- Book four : The Royal Dynasties
- Book five : Kṛṣṇa
- Book Six : Dissolution.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 cc https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- OCLC:
- 1290022660
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