Shree Matsya Puran-Matsya Purana (Sanskrit)

मत्स्यपुराणातसातकल्पांचेवर्णनअसूनहेपुराणनृसिंहवर्णनापासूनसुरूहोते

मत्स्यपुराणम् :

मत्स्य पुराणात सात कल्पांचे वर्णन असून हे पुराण नृसिंह वर्णनापासून सुरू होते.

The Matsya Purana (IAST: Matsya Purāṇa) 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.