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# Vishnupurana 1.5.2

Viṣṇupurāṇa 1.5.2

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [1.5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.1.5.2)

yadguṇaṃ yatsvabhāvaṃ ca yadrūpaṃ ca jagad dvija  
sargādau sṛṣṭavān brahmā tan mamācakṣva vistarāt //

> MAITREYA.--Now unfold to me, Brahman, how this deity created the gods, sages, progenitors, demons, men, animals, trees, and the rest, that abide on earth, in heaven, or in the waters: how Brahmá at creation made the world with the qualities, the characteristics, and the forms of 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.1.5.1) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.1.5.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.1.5.2) — Sanskrit

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