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# Vaishnava Dharmashastra 1.5

Vaiṣṇava Dharmaśāstra 1.5

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu.1.5)

dharmasatyamayaḥ śrīmān kramavikramasatkṛtaḥ  
prāyaścittamahāghoṇaḥ paśujānur mahākṛtiḥ //

> He was full of piety and veracity; beautiful; his strides and his strength were immense (like those of Vishnu); his large nostrils were penances; his knees the victim; and his figure colossal.  
> — Julius Jolly 1880, The Institutes of Vishnu

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## Translations (1)

- [The Institutes of Vishnu](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.visnu~en-jolly.1.5) — Julius Jolly 1880, English

## Linked texts (2)

- [Critical edition (BORI)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa*crit.App.I.42.169) — Sanskrit
- [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma.213.35) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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