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# Vishnupurana 6.1.9

Viṣṇupurāṇa 6.1.9

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.1.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.1.9)

parāśara uvāca:  
kaleḥ svarūpaṃ maitreya yad bhavān praṣṭum icchati  
tan nibodha samāsena vartate yan mahāmune //

> PARÁŚARA.--Hear, Maitreya, an account of the nature of the Kali age, respecting which you have inquired, and which is now close at hand.  
> — 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.6.1.4) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.6.1.p4) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Commentaries (3)

- [Ātmaprakāśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu!sridhara) — Śrīdhara Svāmin, Sanskrit
- [Viṣṇucittīya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu!visnucitta) — Sanskrit
- [Vaiṣṇavakūṭacandrikā Viṣṇupurāṇaṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu!ratnagarbha) — Ratnagarbhamiśra, Sanskrit

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.6.1.9) — Sanskrit

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