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# Vishnupurana 3.8.3

Viṣṇupurāṇa 3.8.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.3.8.3)

parāśara uvāca:  
yat pṛcchati bhavān etat sagareṇa mahātmanā  
aurvaḥ prāha yathā pṛṣṭas tan me kathayataḥ śṛṇu //

> PARÁŚARA.--The question you have asked was formerly put by Sagara to Aurva. I will repeat to you his reply.  
> — 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.3.8.2) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.3.8.p2) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.3.8.3) — Sanskrit

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