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# Matsyapurana 53.13

Matsyapurāṇa 53.13

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [53.13](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.53.13)

brāhmaṃ tridaśasāhasraṃ purāṇaṃ parikīrtyate  
likhitvā tacca yo dadyāj jaladhenusamanvitam  
vaiśākhapūrṇimāyāṃ ca brahmaloke mahīyate //

> (1) \*The Brahma Purâṇa\*.—Brahma Purâṇa contains 13,000 ślokas. One who writes and gives it away in charity, along with a cow and water, in the month of Vaiśâkha, on the full-moon day, passes his days in Brahmaloka, in happiness.—13.  
> — 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.53.p7) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.53.13) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kṛtyaratnākara (Caṇḍeśvara)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.krtya.krtyaratnakara.1.p100) — Caṇḍeśvara, Sanskrit

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