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# THE INSTITUTES OF VISHNU
TRANSLATED BY JULIUS JOLLY
#### Sacred Books of the East, Vol. 7
#### Oxford, the Clarendon Press
#### [1880]
{scanned at sacred-texts.com, March 2002}
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