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visayah | 33 desena daksayanyastatra gamanadivarnanam | tatra dattakrta sivanindam nisamya vimana- rohanena devya punah kailasagamanapurvakam sivasamipe tadrttantakirttanam | sivasivayoh krodhena bhadrakalivirabhadrayoravirbhavakathanam | sivajnaya dakini sakini- hakiniprabhrtibhih sarddham tayoh daksalayagamanadivivaranakathanam | daksasya sira- schedanadikathanam | virabhadrakrta brahmendradiduravasthavarnanam | tasya visnuna saha samarasamrambhavarnanam | visnukrtatatstoca kirttanam | atha tatra sivavivayoragamanena devanam jivanapraptih, dattasya punarujjivanakathananca | dattasamipe brahmana vistaratah sivamahatmaprakathanam | prthivyah samsthapanadikathanam | bhugolakathananca | No. 1742. bhavisyapuranam | Substance, country paper, 14 x 5 inches. Folia, 148. Lines, 8-9 on a page. Extent, 3,497 slokas. Character, Nagara. Date, ? Place of deposit, Nasipura, Zila Murshidabad, Raja Ramachanda Simha. Appearance, fresh. Verse. Correct. Bhavishya Purana. One of the 18 great Puranas. The codex comprises the third book or Madhya Tantra. The following is Professor Wilson's account of the work. "The Purana in which Brahma, having described the greatness of the sun, explained to Manu the existence of the world, and the characters of all created things, in the course of the Aghora Kalpa, that is called the Bhavishya ; the stories being, for the most part, the events of a future period. It contains fourteen thousand five hundred stanzas.' This Purana, as the name implies, should be a book of prophecies, foretelling what will be (bhavishyati), as the Matsya Purana intimates. Whether such a work exists, is doubtful. The copies, which appear to be entire, and of which there are three in the library of the East India Company, agreeing, in their contents, with two in my possession, contain about seven thousand stanzas. There is another work, entitled the ' Bhavishyottara,' as if it was a continuation or supplement of the former, containing, also, about seven thousand verses: but the subjects of both these works are but to a very imperfect degree analogous to those to which the Matsya alludes. 5