BY THE LATE HORACE HAYMAN WILSON, MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY, OF THE ASIATIC SOCIETIES OF FOREIGN MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMIES OF ST. PETERSBURGH AND VIENNA, AND BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. THEC THE VISHNU PURÁŃA: A SYSTEM ОР HINDU MYTHOLOGY AND TRADITION. TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SANSKRIT, AND ILLUSTRATED BY NOTES DERIVED CHIEFLY FROM OTHER PURANAS, BY THE LATE H. H. WILSON, M. A., F.R.S., BODEN PROFESSOR OF SANSKRIT IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, EDITED BY FITZEDWARD HALL, M. A., D. C. L. OXON. VOL. I. LONDON: TRÜBNER & CO., 60, PATERNOSTER ROW. 1864. ΤΟ THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS, AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED BY H. H. WILSON, IN TESTIMONY OF HIS VENERATION FOR THE UNIVERSITY, AND IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF THE DISTINCTION CONFERRED UPON HIM BY HIS ADMISSION AS A MEMBER, AND HIS ELECTION TO THE BODEN PROFESSORSHIP OF THE SANSKRIT LANGUAGE. OXFORD, Feb. 10, 1840. |