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The Vishnu Purana is a primary sacred text of the Vaishnava branchof Hinduism, which today probably has more adherents than any other.It is one of the canonical Puranas, a branch of post-Vedic sacredliterature which was first committed to writing during the firstmillennium of the common era.Like most of the other Puranas, this isa complete narrative from the creationof the current universe to its destruction.The chronology describes periods as longas a hundred trillion (1014) years!It includes extensive sections on the genealogy of the legendarykings, heroes and demigods of ancient India, including those fromthe epics, the Mahabharata and Ramayana.There are fascinating descriptions of ancient Hindu cosmology and geography.Of general interest is a collection of stories about theboyhood adventures of Krishna and Rama, whom the Vaishnavas believeto be avatars of Vishnu.There are also references to Buddhism and Jainism, which help establishthe date of composition of the work.
This is the first time that this work has appeared on the Internet in any form.H.H. Wilson was one of the first European scholars to producea scholarly translation of a major Hindu sacred text.His translation employs clear English whichmodern readers will find very readable.There is very littleof the pseudo-King James style,loved by 19th century orientalists (and loathedby modern scholars).The footnotes are extensive and very helpful, with comprehensivenotes correlating the Vishnu Purana with other Puranas and Hindu texts.Unfortunately, good editions of this translation havelargely been unavailable in print for many years.There are some re-typeset and heavily edited versions printed in India,of dubious quality, which I can't recommend.The copytext for this etext was a very expensive photographicreproduction of the original 1840 edition.This is part of a reprint series which may be obtainable from somelarger urban and academic libraries.
Production notes:As per site policy, I have attempted to match the printededition's transliteration of Sanskrit exactly.This uses Unicode, so if you have trouble viewing some of the lettersin this text, please refer to theUnicode help file.Wilson used a very simple transliteration system, justan acute accent for both long vowels and alternate consonants.He does not distinguish between the dental, palatal andanusvara variants of 'n', but this will only bother the sanscritologists.Although he applied this scheme fairly consistently, there arenumerous variations in the transliteration of less-common Sanskrit proper nouns(particularly in the Index).I have not attempted to correct any of these variations exceptfor a few obvious errors, which are indicated in the usual way bylinks to my errata file.
There were numerous passages and words in the footnotesin Devanagari (the Sanskrit alphabet).I have created image files for these in the Preface.There were far too many of these in the body text to reproduceas images.So I have silently edited Devanagari out from the main text,altering punctuation where necessary.In most cases where he supplies a passage in Devanagari,he translates it in the immediate vicinity,so omitting these does not lose any information.In the rare case where such anomission would change the meaning of a sentence, I haveinserted the placeholder '###' to indicate where a word or phrasein Devanagari was positioned.
While proofing the Index, many errors in page referenceswere silently corrected so that the page hyperlinks would work correctly.There are doubtless other remaining page number errors in the Index,some from OCR errors (the OCR software I use, OmniPage,has trouble recognizing digits in older typeset text),some, typically, in the copytext,so this part of the etext should be considered provisional.However, the body text has been subjected to three proof passes,so every effort has been made to produce a very accurate etext.
--John Bruno Hare, March 15th, 2006.
Preface
IntroductionDate of the Puráńas
Form of the Puráńas
Classification of the Puráńas
1. The Brahmá Puráńa
2. The Padma Puráńa
3. The Vishńu Puráńa
4. The Váyavíya Puráńa
5. The Bhágavata Puráńa
6. The Naradíya Puráńa
7. The Márkańd́eya Puráńa
8. The Agni Puráńa
9. The Bhavishya Puráńa
10. The Brahma-vaivartta Puráńa
11. The Linga Puráńa
12. The Varáha Puráńa
13. The Skanda Puráńa
14. The Vámana Puráńa
15. The Kúrma Puráńa
16. The Matsya Puráńa
17. The Gárud́a Puráńa
18. The Brahmáńd́a Puráńa
The Upa-puráńas
Synopsis of the Vishńu Puráńa
Book One
Book Two
The Third Book
The Fourth Book
The Fifth Book
The Sixth Book
Date of the Vishńu Puráńa
Conclusion
Contents
Corrections
Book I
Chapter IChapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Sacrifice of Daksha (From the Váyu Puráńa)
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Book II
Chapter IChapter II
Chapter III
Topographical Lists from the Mahábhárata
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Book III
Chapter IChapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Book IV
Chapter IChapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter IV
Chapter VII
Legend of Paraśuráma
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXIV
Book V
Chapter IChapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
Chapter XXII
Chapter XXIII
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Book VI
Chapter IChapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Index
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Where can I find English translation of complete Garuda Purana online?
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The Motilal Banarsidass translation of Garuda Purana by J.L. Shastri is an unabridged translation and can be downloaded using the link below or from this answer.
- 1184 pages
- Vol. 1 begins at page # 1
- Vol. 2 begins at page # 429
- Vol. 3 begins at page # 839
I was also able to find a free copy of an abridged English translation of Garuda Purana by M.N. Dutt (Manmatha Nath Dutt) at two different places:
- Google Books++: https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=0Fwxjf4IM78C
- Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/garudapuranam00duttgoog
- Proofread HTML: http://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/the-garuda-purana-duttIf you prefer PDF file, it's available via this direct link (32 MB).
++ One advantage with the Google Books format is that it's searchable!
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