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# Matsyapurana 47.55

Matsyapurāṇa 47.55

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [47.55](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.47.55)

devāsurakṣayakarāḥ prajānāṃ tu hitāya vai  
hiraṇyakaśipū rājā varṣāṇāmarbudaṃ babhau //

> Hiraṇyakaśyapu ruled the land with all the mundane glory at his command, for a period of one hundred million seventy eight crores and eighty thousand years, after whom Bali ruled for 20,080,000 years and Prahlâda also ruled for a similar period with other Asuras.—55-57.  
> — 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.p21) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.47.55) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.13.193) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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