Volume 13 (1898)

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PREFACE.
Kaçīkalpalatikā, No. 36, and Dattatreya-Sahasranāma,
No. 94, are other Paurāṇika works described in this volume.
Haribhaktisudhodaya, No. 265, is a part of the Nāradapu-
rāṇa. It is complete in 20 chapters and it treats of devotion
to Hari.
The appearance of a MS. of the Brahmāṇḍa purāṇa, No.
144, containing 10,000 Çlokas out of 12,000, the traditional
extent, goes against the theory that this purāṇa hardly exists
in a complete body, but seems to be made up of a large num-
ber of Māhātmyas. It is composed of Prakriyā, Anuṣanga,
Upodghāta, Madhyabhāga and Brahmāṇḍāvartta pādas. The
same work in Stein, p. 205, contains only the first two pādas.
Babu Nagendranatha Vasu in his edition of the Brahmaṇḍa
purāṇa, in Bengali character, quoting Nārada purāṇa,
says that there are two works going under this name: one is
a Mahā and the other an Upa purāṇa. The Mahā purāna is
divided into four parts: Prakriyā, Anuṣanga, Upodghāta, and
Upasamhāra. The topics of the second and third are mostly
found in the present codex, but those in the other two, seem to
have been very greatly condensed.
(1) Kavya.-Bhramaradūtam, No. 158, is a wretched
imitation of Kālidāsa's Meghadūtam by Rudra Nyāyavācas-
pati Bhattācāryya, son of Vidyānivāsa, and grandson of
Vidyāvācaspati. He seems to have been the great Nyāya
commentator Rudra Nyāyavācaspati, and not the poet Rudra
Nyñyavācaspati who wrote the Bhāvavilāsa in honour of
Māna Simha's son. The father of the poet Rudra is not
Vidyānivāsa but Vidyāvilāsa. The work is to be differenti-
ated from the Keral, a work entitled Bhramara Sandeça by
Vasudeva, mentioned in page 449, J.R.A.S., 1884.
Candradūtam, No. 61, by Kṛṣṇacandra Tarkālaŋkāra,
son of Gopikānta Bhattācāryya, is another wretched imitation
of the same work. Sabhākaustubha, No. 240, was compiled
by Darpanārāyaṇa Mitra, under the orders of Harinārāyaṇa
Mitra Vaŋgādhikāri, the Revenue Record-keeper of the Suba
of Bengal, and published by Rāmanārāyāṇa Mitra in B.S.