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The Vishńu Puráńa

a system of Hindu mythology and tradition

by H.H Wilson & Fitzedward Hall

  • First published:
  • 19th century
  • Languages: English, Sanskrit
  • Content type: Primary source

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None of the 2 sources behind this record supplied a summary of The Vishńu Puráńa (1840). What the catalog does say:

Traditions: Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends

Subjects: Hinduism, Hindu mythology, Puranas, Literatura Sanscrita

Provenance

Why this book is in the catalog

Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Mythology, folklore, and sacred legends.

  • Controlled discovery queries from bavarian-state-library and openlibrary-historical matched “Mythologie” and “Mythology”. Retained metadata contains “Mythology” in the subtitle, “Mythology” in the subject metadata, and “Mythology” in the edition subtitle.

    • Mythologie· via Bavarian State Library Digital Collections
    • Mythology· via Open Library
    • Mythology· in subtitle
    • Mythology· in subject
    • Mythology· in edition subtitle

Membership records how this book met the catalog’s discovery criteria — relevance to a tradition, not a judgment of the book’s claims.

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Editions

Open Library reports 32 editions; 4 cataloged here.

a system of Hindu-Mythology and Tradition

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 812; Shelfmark: 4 A.or. 120-52

1840LondonEnglishPublic iiif reader

The Vishnu Purana

Bavarian State Library digitized rare-book edition

Digitized image count: 808; Shelfmark: 4 A.or. 2748

1840London : Murray; MurrayEnglishPublic iiif reader

The Vishnu Purán

1864Trübner & co.EnglishPublic

Subjects

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Cataloging notes

  • B3Kat identifier: BV001652948
  • B3Kat identifier: BV001652949
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: 4 A.or. 120-52
  • Bavarian State Library shelfmark: 4 A.or. 2748
  • Digitization license: https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/
  • Holding institution or provenance: München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
  • Open Library reports 2 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 32 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Publication place: London
Catalog id
openlibrary-work:OL42674345W
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