According to tradition, Vishnu Purana has 23,000 verses. How many verses exist in the extant Vishnu Purana?
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Only 6500 verses are present in Shri Vishnu Purana. Remaining are in the Vishnudharmottara Purana. – user17854 Aug 19 at 9:20
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According to this Critical Edition available on the GRETIL website:
Visnu-Purana
Based on: The Critical Edition of the Viṣṇupurāṇam,
Critically Edited by M. M. Pathak, Vadodara, Oriental Institute 1997-1999.
...the total # of verses is about 5276.
And if you go by the Bombay edition from 1910, the count is 6389.
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Someone already asked a question about it: Is Vishnudharmottara the second part of Vishnu Purana? I plan to answer it some day. @Govinda – sv. Aug 21 at 18:27
