H. H. Wilson
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Horace Hayman Wilson was an English orientalist who was elected the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University.
Horace Hayman Wilson
Watercolour by James Atkinson, 1821
Vishnu Purana
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The Vishnu Purana is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism. It is considered an important Pancharatra text within the Vaishnavism literary corpus.
H. H. Wilson
…Burmese War, with Documents, Political and Geographical (1827), a Review of the External Commerce of Bengal from 1813 to 1828 (1830), a translation of Vishnu Purana (1840), and a History of British India from 1805 to 1835, (1844–1848) in continuation of James Mill's 1818 The History of British India. 1813 The Mēgha…
Samudra Manthanam depicted in above sculpture, is described in the Vishnu Purana. Suvarnabhumi Airport, Bangkok
The Vishnu Purana includes several chapters in book 3 on rites of passage from birth through death. Included are chapters on cremation rites (above).
The longest part of the Vishnu Purana is dedicated to the story Of Krishna (Above).
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