History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.168.4

v7.c90.168.4

The Viṣṇudharmottara is an encyclopaedia, while Varāhamihira was a great astronomer and astrologer He would turn to his predecessors in his own subject if he wanted to borrow and he expressly mentions numerous predecessors (vide pp 591–594 above) and not to an Upapurāṇa (which in my view did not exist or at least was not recognised as an authority when Varāha wrote in the first half of the 6th century A D.) Besides, the presumption to be drawn from the nature of the Upapurāṇa is in favour of holding that it borrows.