The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c3.s2: Bhaviṣya Purāṇa

The Purāṇa Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age c3.s2

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Bhaviṣya Purāṇa

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Edition published by the Śrī-Veṅkaṭeśvara Press, Bombay. The Pratisarga-parvan deals with the dynasties of the Kali age, but the account is not genuine, see Introdn. §§ 6, 9, 28, and ZDMG, lvii, 276.

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I have examined the following MSS, but none of them contain anything about these dynasties:—

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in the India Office Library, two, no. 1314, E 3447, and no. 1429, E 3448;

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in the Bodleian Library, three, Auf. Cat. nos. 75 (Wilson 103), 76 (Wilson 126), and 77 (Wilson 124);

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in the Nepal State Library, one MS sent to Oxford with other selected MSS.

I have also made inquiries about MSS elsewhere, but have not found any in which this dynastic matter can be deemed genuine. The Sanskrit College, Calcutta, has a MS, no. 106, from which two extracts were sent me; it describes the founding of Calcutta. Queen's College, Benares, has a MS but it does not contain this dynastic matter, as Prof. Venis informs me. He sent me an extract from a MS belonging to the College Librarian, Paṇḍit Vindhyeśvarīprasād Dvivedī, but it deals with later events and especially with the Mohammedans.

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Bhaviṣyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit