Kumar_Das
06 July 2010, 08:07 PM
From wikipedia about Vishnu Purana
First it is stated
It is said to contain some 23,000 shlokas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shloka), though the actual number of verses contained is less than seven thousand. All the copies, procured both in the east and in the west of India, agree; and there is no appearance of any part being wanting. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end, in both text and comment; and the work as it stands is incontestably entire. This is a discrepancy not easy to account for.
And then
H. H. Wilson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Hayman_Wilson) considers the Vishnu Purana to be one of the oldest of the Puranas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purana), and dates it to the first century BCE,[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Purana#cite_note-1) though Gavin Flood dates it later to the fourth century CE.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Purana#cite_note-2). The original version must have written during the later Vedic period (800bce-300bce); but in its present form, it may have been edited or recomposed during the Gupta era (300CE-500CE).
What?...
First it is stated
It is said to contain some 23,000 shlokas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shloka), though the actual number of verses contained is less than seven thousand. All the copies, procured both in the east and in the west of India, agree; and there is no appearance of any part being wanting. There is a beginning, a middle, and an end, in both text and comment; and the work as it stands is incontestably entire. This is a discrepancy not easy to account for.
And then
H. H. Wilson (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Hayman_Wilson) considers the Vishnu Purana to be one of the oldest of the Puranas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purana), and dates it to the first century BCE,[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Purana#cite_note-1) though Gavin Flood dates it later to the fourth century CE.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vishnu_Purana#cite_note-2). The original version must have written during the later Vedic period (800bce-300bce); but in its present form, it may have been edited or recomposed during the Gupta era (300CE-500CE).
What?...