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# Vishnupurana 2.1.42

Viṣṇupurāṇa 2.1.42

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.42)

eṣa svāyaṃbhuvaḥ sargo yenedaṃ pūritaṃ jagat  
vārāhe tu mune kalpe pūrvamanvantarādhipaḥ //

> This was the creation of Swáyambhuva Manu, by which the earth was peopled, when he presided over the first Manwantara, in the Kalpa of Varáha  
> — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition

### [2.1.42.p1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.1.42.p1)

iti śrīviṣṇupurāṇe dvitīye 'ṃśe prathamo 'dhyāyaḥ

## Translations (2)

- [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.2.1.10) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.2.1.p8) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

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