History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t4.9

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¹⁵⁷⁵ Vide Hunter's Orissa vol. I. pp. 89-94 for a somewhat different account based on Kapilasamhitā, the most important points of which are that Viṣṇu shows to Indradyumna as His image a log of wood thrown up by the ocean, that the images were being fashioned by the divine carpenter, that it was ordered that no one was to see them till they were ready and that in spite of this, the queen insisted on seeing them when they had been chiselled only up to the waist and when only stems stood in the place of the arms for the images of Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, while the image of Subhadrā had no arms at all. The present images are to this day in the same condition. The images are described by Rajendralal Mitra in 'Antiquities of Orissa' II. pp 122-123. The story of इन्द्रद्युम्न occurs in नारदीयपुराण, उत्तरार्ध 52 41-93, 53-57, 58. 1-21, 60-61. नारदीय agrees very closely with the Brahmapurāṇa and seems to have borrowed its text from the latter.