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It has been shewn that with regard to the technical names and other details of the twenty types, under which temple-buildings are described, the *Matsya-purāṇa* (chapter 269, verses 28—53), the *Bhavishya-purāṇa* (chapter 130, verses 27—35), and the *Brihat-saṁhitā* (chapter 56, verses 20—28) are identical.⁴ The *Bhavishya-purāṇa* (chapter 130, verses 15—26, 36—37, 27—35) can be read, letter for letter, in the *Brihat-saṁhitā* (LVI. 8—19, 30, 20—28). When verses 22 and 36—37 of the former are compared with the identical verses 15 and 29—30 of the latter, it seems as if Varāhamihira were the debtor.⁵ It should be noted that the linguistic defects of the *Bhavishya-purāṇa* are removed in the *Bṛihat-saṁhitā*.
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- Matsyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- Bṛhatsaṃhitā — Varāhamihira, Sanskrit
- Bhaviṣyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit