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11) reads ‘Śaṅkā sadbhistu saṁsargāt tattvaṁ ṣoḍhābhidarśanāt’ and avoids the rare word ‘hoḍhābhi-’ in Nārada ‘Śaṅkāsatāṁ tu saṁsargāt tattvaṁ hoḍhābhidarśanāt’ (Vyavahāramātṛkā I. 27). For Nārada's ‘akṣabradhnaśalākādyair &c.’ (dyūtasamāhvaya I) Agni reads ‘Akṣavajra &c.’ (253. 29). The Mit. (on Yāj. II. 199) and Vīr. (p. 718) follow printed Nārada in the last case and also in the other cases. In the Smṛti-candrikā, Hemādri, Parāśaramādhavīya and other later *nibandhas* numerous verses of Nārada are quoted on topics of ācāra, śrāddha, prāyaścitta. For example, Hemādri (caturvarga vol. III. part 2, pp. 159, 183, 185, 223, 235) quotes several verses of Nārada on Ekādaśī and a verse of Nārada about the astrological *yoga* called padmaka. The Smṛticandrikā (I. pp. 198-199) quotes 26 verses on the worship of Nārāyaṇa, the last of which is the well known verse ‘dhyeyaḥ sadā savitṛmaṇḍala-madhyavartī &c.’ and the same work (on śrāddha p. 354) quotes a verse of Nārada in which Sunday and Saṁkrānti are mentioned. The question arises whether these quotations of Nārada on ācāra and prāyaścitta and allied topics are the work of the same Nārada that wrote on Vyavahāra.