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# Vishnupurana 3.11.96

Viṣṇupurāṇa 3.11.96

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.11.96](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.11.96)

viṣṇur attā tathaivānnaṃ pariṇāmaś ca vai yathā  
satyena tena vai bhuktaṃ jīryatv annam idaṃ tathā //

> For verily Vishńu is the eater and the food and the nutriment: and through this belief may that which I have eaten be digested.'  
> — 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.3.11.7.4) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.3.11.p10) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

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