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# Vishnupurana 3.3.2

Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate) 3.3.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.3.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.3.3.2)

etattu śrotumicchāmi vyastā vedā mahātmanā /  
vedavyāsasvarūpeṇa yathā tena yugeyuge //

> MAITREYA.--I have learnt from you, in due order, how this world is Vishńu; how it is in Vishńu; how it is from Vishńu: nothing further is to be known: but I should desire to hear how the Vedas were divided, in different ages, by that great being, in the form of Veda-vyása? who were the Vyásas of their respective eras? and what were the branches into which the Vedas were distributed?  
> — 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.3.3.1) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.3.3.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (critical edition)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*crit.3.3.2) — Sanskrit

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