History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.168.3

v7.c90.168.3

I have dealt with this matter above on p. 768 n 1240. Varāha states that these verses are the summaries (ṛṣiputrakṛtaiḥ ślokair-vidyād-etat samāsoktaiḥ) of the ślokas of Ṛṣiputra Therefore, the view that they are borrowed by Varāha from the Matsya or Viṣṇudharmottara would be out of question The two Purāṇas do not say whence they have taken them Therefore, it would not be unjustifiable to hold that in both Purāṇas the verses of the Bṛhat-saṃhitā were inserted. There is another circumstance that strengthens this last view. The Adbhutasāgara on pp. 493–494 quotes seven verses from the Bṛhad-yātrā of Varāha alone. These verses are quoted by Utpala on Bṛ. S 47. 22 (where Varāha says ‘sadasat-svapnanimittam yātrāyāṃ svapnavidhir-uktaḥ) from ‘Yātrā’ These verses (8 in all) are Varāha’s own (as he says) and not taken from any other source. Three of these verses on dreams occur in the Viṣṇudharmottara (II 176 9–11). They are quoted above on p 776 note 1254. Prof. Hazra does not appear to have carefully gone into the several works of Varāhamihira and is not right when he says (on pp. 201 and 211) that ‘the Viṣṇudharmottara does not refer to or utilize the works of Varāhamihira’.