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we are told, should be distinguished from the Navanandāḥ or New (Later) Nandas, and taken to answer to a ruler of the group represented by Nandivardhana and Mahānandin of the *Purāṇas*.¹ In the works of Kshemendra and Somadeva, however, Pūravananda (*singular*) is distinguished, not from the *Navanandāḥ*, but from Yogananda (Pseudo-Nanda), the re-animated corpse of