A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1979

c5.1979

VARĀHA PURĀNA. “That in which the glory of the great Varāha is predominant, as it was revealed to Earth by Vishnu, in connexion, wise Munis, with the Mānava kalpa, and which contains 24,000 verses, is called the Varāha Purāna;” but this description differs so from the Purāna which bears the name in the present day, that Wilson doubts its applying to it. The known work “is narrated by Vishnu as Varāha, or in the boar incarnation, to the personified Earth. Its extent, however, is not half that specified, little exceeding 10,000 stanzas. It furnishes also itself evidence of the prior currency of some other work similarly denominated.” “It may perhaps be referred to the early part of the twelfth century.”