Narasimha Purana

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Narasimha Purana (Narasiṁha Purāṇa) (Sanskrit:नरसिंह पुराण) is one of the Upapuranas. R.C. Hazra in his Studies in the Upapuranas[1] came to the conclusion that the original text was written in the later part of the 5th century CE, though several portions of it were added much later.

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The recension presented by the printed editions of the text has 68 chapters. The 8th chapter of the text is one of the three versions of the Yama Gītā (other two versions are the Vishnu Purana, Book 3, ch.1-7 and the Agni Purana, Book 3, ch.381). The chapters 36-54 consist the narratives of the ten Avatars of Vishnu.

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  1. ^ Hazra, R.C. Studies in the Upapuranas, Vol. I (Calcutta Sanskrit College Research Series No.II), Calcutta, 1958, pp.242-3

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