History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.161

v7.c90.161

In spite of the very admirable and praiseworthy efforts of Dr Hazra in the matter of the place of the Upapurāṇas, their contents, the search among numerous mss to find out what the text of the several upapurāṇas has been, the present writer must say here once for all that he does not at all agree with most of the dates that he assign to the Sāmba, the Viṣṇudharma, the Viṣṇudharmottara, the Narasiṁhapurāṇa, which are the principal Upapurāṇas he has dealt with in the first volume of ‘Studies in Upapurāṇas’. His dates for the four Upapurāṇas are;