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Synopsis The Present volume contains Lingapurana Part II in English translation. It is the sixth in the series of fifty Volumes on Ancient Indian Tradition and Mythology. The project of the Series was envisaged and financed in 1970 A.D. by Shri Sundarlal Jain, the veteran interprizer in the field of Oriental Publication and the leading proprietor Messers Motilal Banarsidass. In this project six volumes of the series (that is, four vols. Of the Sivapurana and two vols. Of the Lingapurana completing both the Puranas) have been published and made accessible to the reader. The present English translation is based on the Sanskrit text of the Lingapurana published in India by messers Ksemaraja Srikrsnadasa. This text, constructed on the collation of Mss. Is fairly reliable, although here and there is suffers from certain lapses and defies our efforts for accurate translation. But these lapses are few and far between and they do not vitiate the quality of translation as a whole.