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# Vishnupurana 6.3.3

Viṣṇupurāṇa 6.3.3

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [6.3.3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.3.3)

maitreya uvāca:  
parārdhasaṃkhyāṃ bhagavan mamācakṣva yayā tu saḥ  
dviguṇīkṛtayā jñeyaḥ prākṛtaḥ pratisaṃcaraḥ //

> MAITREYA.--Tell me, excellent master, what is the enumeration of a Parárddha, the expiration of two of which is the period of elemental dissolution.  
> — 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.6.3.2) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English
- [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.6.3.p2) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English

## Other recensions (1)

- [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.6.3.3) — Sanskrit

## Linked texts (1)

- [Brahmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.brahma.232.3) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit

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