History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.173

v7.c90.173

¹⁴¹⁴ Even a late writer like नरसिंहवाजपेयिन् patronized by the Gajapati king Mukundadeva (1559-1568 A D ) says in his नित्याचारप्रदीप (B. I. ed.) vol I p 18 'प्रसिद्धनारसिंहस्य अष्टादशसाहस्रसंख्या यद्यपि नोपलभ्यते किञ्चित् कालक्रमाल्लुप्तमिति प्रतिभाति।'. It further says that the Nandi or Nanda purāṇa is a part of Skanda and that, since Lakṣmīdhara says that the Kālikā is an Upapurāṇa, those that say that by the word Bhāgavata the Kālikā is meant are wrong and then enumerates the 18 उपपुराणs