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# Matsyapurana 47.26

Matsyapurāṇa 47.26

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [47.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.47.26)

devāṃśāḥ sarva eveha hy utpannāste mahaujasaḥ  
devāsure hatā ye ca tv asurā ye mahābalāḥ //

> The valiant Yâdavas multiplied themselves into a race of three crores, out of whom 60000 powerful ones were born as incarnations of Devas on this earth. The incarnations of Asuras who were killed in the war between Devas and Asuras, were born on earth as obstructors of all human progress, and in order to destroy whom Śrî Kṛiṣṇa was born in the clan of the Yâdavas.—15-27.  
> — 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.p8-2) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.47.26) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.13.164) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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