[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Purāṇas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana) › [Vishnupurana](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) › 6.8.5 # Vishnupurana 6.8.5 Viṣṇupurāṇa 6.8.5 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [6.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.8.5) maitreya uvāca: bhagavan kathitaṃ sarvaṃ yat pṛṣṭo 'si mayā mune śrutaṃ caitan mayā bhaktyā nānyat praṣṭavyam asti me // > MAITREYA.--Holy teacher, you have indeed related to me all that I wished to know, and I have listened to it with pious attention. I have nothing further to inquire. The doubts inseparable from the mind of man have all been resolved by you, and through your instructions I am acquainted with the origin, duration, and end of all things; with Vishńu in his collective fourfold form; his three energies; and with the three modes of apprehending the object of contemplation. Of all this have I acquired a knowledge through your favour, and nothing else is worthy to be known, when it is once understood that Vishńu and this world are not mutually distinct. Great Muni, I have obtained through your kindness all I desired, the dissipation of my doubts, since you have instructed me in the duties of the several tribes, and in other obligations; the nature of active life, and discontinuance of action; and the derivation of all that exists from works. There is nothing else, venerable Brahman, that I have to inquire of you; and forgive me if your answers to my questions have imposed upon you any fatigue. Pardon me the trouble that I have given you, through that amiable quality of the virtuous -which makes no distinction between a disciple and a child. > — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition - [Previous: 6.8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.8.4) - [Next: 6.8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.8.6) - [Up: 6.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.8) ## Translations (2) - [The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-wilson.6.8.2) — Horace Hayman Wilson 1840, English - [A Prose English Translation of Vishnupuranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu~en-dutt.6.8.p2) — Manmatha Nath Dutt 1896, English ## Other recensions (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa (vulgate)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu*vulgate.6.8.5) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu.6.8.5) · Pramāṇa