Purana · Smriti
Vishnu Purana
One of the earliest and most coherent of the great Puranas; H. H. Wilson's 1840 translation gives the classic account of the churning of the ocean for the nectar of immortality.
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Appears in
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
These sources are classical and public. The Vishnu Purana , in Book I chapter 9, gives the scene in H.
- Who is Vishnu? Deities
A thousand years and more later, in the Bhagavata Purana and the Vishnu Purana , the same name belongs to the supreme reality of the universe, the source of all the gods, the absolute itself wearing a face.
- What are the Puranas? Scriptures
Purana comes from the Sanskrit pura , "formerly, before," and the word means, plainly, "old" or "ancient" (Wilson, Vishnu Purana , 1840).