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# Vishnupurana 2.2.4

Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate) 2.2.4

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.2.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.2.2.4)

śrīparāśara uvāca  
maitreya śrūyatāmetatsaṃkṣepādgadato mama /  
nāsya varṣaśatenāpi vaktuṃ śakyo hi vistaraḥ //

> PARÁŚARA.--You shall hear, Maitreya, a brief account of the earth from me: a full detail I could not give you in a century.  
> — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

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## Translations (2)

- [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.2.2.2) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.2.2.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*crit.2.2.4) — Sanskrit

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