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# Vishnupurana 1.21.19

Viṣṇupurāṇa 1.21.19

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.21.19](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.21.19)

surasāyāḥ sahasraṃ tu sarpāṇām amitaujasām  
anekaśirasāṃ brahman khecarāṇāṃ mahātmanām //

> The children of Surasá were a thousand mighty many-headed serpents, traversing the sky.  
> — 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.1.21.10) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.1.21.p10) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.1.21.19) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (4)

- [Critical edition (BORI)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa*crit.3.85) — Sanskrit
- [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma.3.96) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Garuḍapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.garuda.1.6.59) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Ṭoḍarānanda](https://indike.org/pramana/in.niti.dharma.nibandha.mahanibandha.todarananda.2.166) — Ṭoḍaramalla 1564, Sanskrit

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