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# Vishnupurana 1.4.1

Viṣṇupurāṇa 1.4.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.4.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.4.1)

maitreya uvāca:  
brahmā nārāyaṇākhyo 'sau kalpādau bhagavān yathā  
sasarja sarvabhūtāni tad ācakṣva mahāmune //

> MAITREYA.--Tell me, mighty sage, how, in the commencement of the (present) Kalpa, Náráyańa, who is named Brahmá, created all existent things.  
> — 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.1.4.1) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.1.4.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.1.4.1) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Kālahastīśavilāsa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.mahakavya.saiva.kalahastisavilasa.1.28) — Sanskrit

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