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# Matsyapurana 47.20

Matsyapurāṇa 47.20

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [47.20](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.47.20)

evamādīni putrāṇāṃ sahasrāṇi nibodhata  
śataṃ śatasahasrāṇāṃ putrāṇāṃ tasya dhīmataḥ //

> Beginning with these, there were thousands and, according to some, hundreds of thousands, and according to others eighty thousand sons born to Vâsudeva. While others say that he had a hundred thousand sons.—20-21.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.47.p4-2) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.47.20) — English, machine translation

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