History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.199

v7.c90.199

Kalpataru on dāna quotes over 200 verses from it on dāna (of which 140 are on Vidyādāna pp. 207-222, 12 verses on Ārogyadāna, which provide for the establishment of an hospital with a physician knowing the eight angas of āyurveda and provided with drugs &c), Aparārka (pp. 396-403) quotes about 100 verses on vidyadāna agreeing with those in Kalpataru and also quotes (pp 365-366) the same verses on Ārogyadāna; Kalpataru on Niyatakāla quotes 13 verses from this purāna advocating total abstention from flesh-eating (p. 323) and abstaining from flesh at least on the 4th, 8th, 12th 14th and 15th tithis, on Ṣaḍaśīti and sun's passage from one rāśi to another &c. (pp. 353-360). As this is one of the four upapurānas expressly named by the Matsya, as Alberuni mentions a Nanda-purāna which (appears to be the same as Nandi) and as it is largely quoted by Laksmīdhara, Aparārka and Dānasāgara it is one of the earliest Upapurānas and may have been composed in the 8th or 9th century A.D.