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# Vishnupurana 2.6.1

Viṣṇupurāṇa 2.6.1

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [2.6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.2.6.1)

parāśara uvāca:  
tataś ca narakān vipra bhuvo 'dhaḥ salilasya ca  
pāpino yeṣu pātyante tāñ chṛṇuṣva mahāmune //

> PARÁŚARA.--I will now, great Muni, give you an account of the hells which are situated beneath the earth and beneath the waters, and into which sinners are finally sent.  
> — 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.2.6.1) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.2.6.p1) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.2.6.1) — Sanskrit

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