The Viṣṇudharmottara Purāṇa, one of the eighteen Upapurāṇas — the secondary Purāṇas that stand beside the eighteen Mahāpurāṇas, an appendix to the Viṣṇu Purāṇa cast as a dialogue between Mārkaṇḍeya and King Vajra. Encyclopaedic in range, its three khaṇḍas cover cosmology and genealogy, dharma, statecraft and law, astronomy and medicine, and — in the celebrated Citrasūtra of the third khaṇḍa — the classical Indian canons of painting, sculpture, dance and music. Devanāgarī with IAST transliteration, 22,357 verses across 299 sections. Sanskrit text from Sanskrit Wikisource (sa.wikisource.org), available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike licence. IAST transliteration generated from the Devanāgarī. No English translation is included.