विष्णु पुराण

Read Vishnu Puran Katha in Hindi.

Vishnu Purana Comprises 6 Parts and 128 Chapters.The text is composed in metric verses or sloka, wherein each verse has exactly 32 syllables, of which 16 syllables in the verse may be free style per ancient literary standards.The 'Vishnu Purana' is one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, a genre of ancient and medieval texts of Hinduism. It is an important Pancharatra text in the Vaishnavism literature corpus.Vishnu Purana puts forward that the worship of Vishnu could enable man to obtain the consummation of all earthly or materialistic desires and leads man to attain moksha or liberation from cycle of births and deaths in the material world.

Dashavatara (Sanskrit: दशावतार, daśāvatāra) refers to the ten primary avatars of lord Vishnu.

* The Vishnu Purana is among the shorter puran texts, with about 7,000 verses in extant versions.

* Vishnu Purana, like all major Puranas, attributes its author to be sage Ved Vyasa. The actual author(s) and date of its composition are unknown and contested.

* The Padma Purana categorizes Vishnu Purana as a Sattva Purana.