Vishnu Purana

Further Reading

Books

• Dayal, Thakur Harendra. The Vishnu Purana: Social, Economic and Religious Aspects. Delhi: Sundeep Prakashan, 1983.
• Kane, Pandurang Vaman. History of Dharmashastra: Ancient and Medieval Religious and Civil Law. Vol. 5. Poona, India: Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, 1962.
• Michaels, Axel. Hinduism: Past and Present, trans. Barbara Harshav. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004.
• Rocher, Ludo. A History of Indian Literature, Vol. 2: The Puranas. Wiesbaden, Germany: Otto Harrassowitz, 1986.
• Wilson, H. H. The Vishnu Purana: A System of Hindu Mythology and Tradition. Calcutta: Punthi Pustak, 1972.

Journals

• Datta, K. S. R. “The Vishnu-Purana and Advaita.” Purana 20 (1978): 193–196.
• Dikshitar, V. R. Ramachandra. “The Age of the Vishnu Purana.” Indian Historical Quarterly 7, no. 2 (1931): 370–372.
• Hazra, Rajendra Chandra. “The Date of the Vishnu Purana.” Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute 18 (1936–1937): 265–275.
• Kennedy, J. “The Gospels of the Infancy, the Lalita Vistara, and the Vishnu Purana: Or the Transmission of Religious Legends between India and the West.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1917): 209–243, 469–540.
• O’Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. “The Origin of Heresy in Hindu Mythology.” History of Religions 10, no. 4 (May 1971): 271–333.
• Roy, S. N. “Date of Vishnu Purana’s Chapters on Maya-Moha.” Purana 7 (1965): 276–287.
• Sharma, Arvind. “A Note on H. H. Wilson’s Interpretation of the Role of Rajas in Cosmic Creation in the Vishnu Purana.” Purana 19 (1977): 347–350.
• Varadachari, V. “Similes in the Vishnu Purana,” Purana 3 (1961): 228–234.