[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Vishnupurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) › 2.1.26 # Vishnupurana 2.1.26 Viṣṇupurāṇa 2.1.26 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [2.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.26) na teṣv asti yugāvasthā kṣetreṣv aṣṭasu sarvadā himāhvayaṃ tu vai varṣaṃ nābher āsīn mahātmanaḥ tasyarṣabho 'bhavat putro merudevyāṃ mahādyutiḥ // > The eight Varshas, or countries, Kimpurusha and the rest, are places of perfect enjoyment, where happiness is spontaneous and uninterrupted. In them there is no vicissitude, nor the dread of decrepitude or death: there is no distinction of virtue or vice, nor difference of degree as better or worse, nor any of the effects produced in this region by the revolutions of ages. > — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition > Nábhi, who had for his portion the country of Himáhwa, had by his queen Meru the magnanimous Rishabha; and he had a hundred sons, the eldest of whom was Bharata. Rishabha having ruled with equity and wisdom, and celebrated many sacrificial rites, resigned the sovereignty of the earth to the heroic Bharata, and, retiring to the hermitage of Pulastya, adopted the life of an anchoret, practising religious penance, and performing all prescribed ceremonies, until, emaciated by his austerities, so as to be but a collection of skin and fibres, he put a pebble in his mouth, and naked went the way of all flesh. The country was termed Bhárata from the time that it was relinquished to Bharata by his father, on his retiring to the woods. > — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition - [Previous: 2.1.25](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.25) - [Next: 2.1.27](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.27) - [Up: 2.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.2.1.6) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English - [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.2.1.p4) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English ## Other recensions (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.2.1.27) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (1) - [Kūrmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.kurma.1.38.34) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.26](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.26) · Pramāṇa