Hindu Polity: A Constitutional History of India in Hindu Times c32.s1.50

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c32.s1.50

5. The oldest Dharma Sūtra knows Purāṇic literature. Āpastamba mentions the Bhavishya Purāṇa (II. 24, 6, p. 98), and "Purāṇa" again in II. 9. 23, 3. The Bhavishya existed according to Pargiter's researches very early. *Purāṇa* is mentioned as early as the Chhandogya Upanishad (I. 3).

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Chāndogyopaniṣad — Sanskrit
Bhaviṣyapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit