History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.257

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*Viṣṇupurāṇa*—(Venk. Press edition and another published by Messrs. Gopal Narayan and Co. in śaka 1824 with two commentaries, one called Vaiṣṇavakūṭacandrikā of Ratnagarbha Bhaṭṭācārya and the other called Viṣṇucittī). The present text is divided into six *aṃśas*, 126 chapters and about 6000 verses. There are many chapters in prose alone such as in 4th aṃśa chapters 7, 8, 9 and many in mixed prose and verse as in aṃśa 4 chap. 1, 2, 6, 11, 12 &c. As stated above this purāṇa agrees with the definition of purāṇa as *pañca-lakṣaṇa* far more than any other purāṇa. This purāṇa is declared to Maitreya by Parāśara (son of Vasiṣṭha), which he received from Sārasvata, who received it from king Purukutsa on the Narmadā, who heard it from Dakṣa and others who learnt it from Brahmā.