Narasiṃha Purāṇa — Sanskrit Text

by Vedavyāsa

The Narasiṃha Purāṇa (Nṛsiṃha Purāṇa), one of the eighteen Upapurāṇas — the secondary Purāṇas that stand beside the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas. A Vaiṣṇava work centred on the Narasiṃha avatāra of Viṣṇu, it treats creation and the yugas, the royal genealogies, dharma and the duties of the varṇas and āśramas, śrāddha and vrata observances, yoga and devotion, and narrates the destruction of Hiraṇyakaśipu and the deliverance of Prahlāda. Sanskrit in Devanāgarī with IAST transliteration, 3,358 verses across 67 adhyāyas. E-text from GRETIL (Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages); Devanāgarī generated from the transliterated source. No English translation is included.