The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Puraņa) is one of the eighteen major Puranas (Mahapurana), and among the oldest and better preserved in the Puranic genre of Sanskrit literature in Hinduism. The text is a Vaishnavism text named after the half-human and half-fish avatar of Vishnu. However, the text has been called by the 19th-century Sanskrit scholar Horace Hayman Wilson, ""although a Shaivism (Shiva-related) work, it is not exclusively so""; the text has also been referred to one that simultaneously praises various Hindu gods and goddesses.
The following study is an amplification of a course of two lectures delivered at the University in 1933-34.
The chief aim of the work is to explain and interpret the Matsya Purana, one of the eighteen Mahapuranas, and show what contribution it makes to the sum total of Hindu culture and to ancient Indian History in particular. My indebtedness to previous writers on the subject will, I hope, be clear from the notes. My special thanks are due to Professor K. A. Nilakanta Sastri who had the kindness to go through the work in miss and in proof and offer valuable suggestions and criticisms.
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