![]() ![]() Moriz Winternitz (1932): possibly early 1st millennium, but states Rocher, he added, "it is no more possible to assign a definite date to the Vishnu Puran than it is for any other Puran". ![]() Some proposed dates for the earliest version of Vishnu Puran by various scholars include: The composition date of Vishnu Puran is unknown and contested, with estimates widely disagreeing. Samudra Manthanam depicted in above sculpture, is described in the Vishnu Puran. The Padma Puran categorizes Vishnu Puran as a Sattva Puran (Puran which represents Goodness and Purity). The text was likely composed and rewritten in layers over a period of time, with roots possibly in ancient 1st-millennium BCE texts that have not survived into the modern era. Estimates range of its composition range from 400 BCE to 900 CE. The actual author(s) and date of its composition are unknown and contested. Vishnu Puran, like all major Puranas, attributes its author to be sage Veda Vyas. The Puran, states Wilson, is pantheistic and the ideas in it, like other Puranas, are premised on the Vedic beliefs and ideas. It primarily centers around the Hindu God Vishnu and his incarnations such as Krishna, but it praises Brahma and Shiva and asserts that they are dependent on Vishnu. The Vishnu Puran is among the shorter Puran texts, with about 7,000 verses in extant versions. The text is also notable as the earliest Purana to have been translated and published in 1840 CE by HH Wilson, based on manuscripts then available, setting the presumptions and premises about what Puranas may have been. Some manuscripts of the text are notable for not including sections found in other major Puranas, such as those on Mahatmyas and tour guides on pilgrimage, but some versions include chapters on temples and travel guides to sacred pilgrimage sites. More than any other major Puran, the Vishnu Puran presents its contents in Pancalaksana format – Sarga (Cosmogony), Pratisarga (Cosmology), Vamsa (Genealogy Of The Gods, Sages And Kings), Manvantara (Cosmic Cycles), and Vamsanucaritam (Legends During The Times Of Various Kings). The manuscripts of Vishnu Puran have survived into the modern era in many versions. It is an important Pancharatra text in the Vaishnavism literature corpus. The Vishnu Purana ( Visnu-purana, विष्णुपुराण) is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism. One of the eighteen Mahapuranas of Hinduism Vishnu Purana ![]()
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