Dean (Sidhartha please feel free to chime in), after your email the other
day, you've somehow lit a fire within me - or a quest as it were - to find
unadulterated Puranas that translate to English as very nearly as literal
as possible along with a Parallel presentation of the Sanskrit (or
transliterated version). In your words:
*The Parasuram Incarnation met with twenty-one warrior clans (Kshatriyas)
and expulsed them to the lands called "prithivi", the surface. This word
figures in the Sanskrit texts. I have ordered The Vishnu Purana, which is
huge and tells the stories of the incarnations in full. I have been limited
to the Bhagavat Purana which only gives a summary of these stories. *
You can find the story of Parasurama online, but the part about from
inside to out is absent, always. The translators don't know how to handle
it. I once ordered the Kalki Purana which narrates how, at the end of the
Kali Yuga, the Kalki Avatar annihilates the miscreants, the surface of the
Earth is regenerated, and Kalki and men from the interior re-populate the
surface of the Earth. The translator completely avoided any refference to
inner earth/outer earth; and that's the gist of the whole story!
*But when I receive the Vishnu Purana itself, I should have detailed
information to present. *
To this end I've begun to hunt for such works that meet these
qualifications of maintaining the purity to which you refer.
Could you please give some exact verbiage and/or page number or references?
For example, I'm not yet aware how one references material in the Puranas.
In Christian biblical listings we usually will give the name of the book +
chapter and verse. I suspect in this it would be inclusive of the primary
book name too.
So for example, when I refer to the translation by H.H. Wilson of The
Vishnu Purana, I do not see particularly remarkable references to the word
"surface" per se (there are some interesting things, sure, but it doesn't
seem to be what YOU'RE referring to).
Any help at getting these references would be much appreciated so I can
begin my own digging.
I'm considering trying to contact some folks in some more significant
libraries in India to see what they have to say, but I wanted to see if I
could get more details here first.