[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930) › v7.c90.201 # History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.201 History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.201 - **Language:** English ### [v7.c90.201](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c90.201) Nāradapurāṇa—(Venk. Press) Vide H. in I C. vol. III. p. 477-488, PRHR pp 127-133 on 'Bṛhan-nāradīya and Nāradīya' and 'Studies &c.' vol. I pp 309-345 The Bṛhan-nāradīya was published by the Calcutta Asiatic Society and by the Vangavāsī Press in 38 chapters and about 3500 verses H. holds that the Bṛhan-nāradīya is a purely sectarian Vaiṣṇava work, is wanting in the characteristics of a purāṇa, that the Nāradīya noticed by the Matsya (53. 23 as containing 23000 verses and in which Nārada proclaimed the dharmas of Bṛhatkalpa) and by the Agni (272. 8) is different from the present Nāradīya and that the extant Nāradīya borrows from the Bṛhan-nāradīya (pp. 336-341 of 'Studies &c' vol. I). The Nāradīya (Venk. Press) is divided into two parts, the first in 125 chapters and the 2nd in 82 chapters (and about 5513 verses in all). Out of the 5513 verses of the 2nd part 3100 deal with various tīrthas and most of the remaining are concerned with the story of Rukmāṅgada and Mohinī. The first part deals with several matters such as praise of Viṣṇu and bhakti, Geography of India, story of Sagara, Bhagīratha and Gaṅgā-māhātmya, a few vratas, Varṇa-dharma, Āśramadharma, pātakas, sadācāra and śrāddha. Nāradīya I. 9.10 has a verse which echoes a Kirātārjunīya verse¹⁴¹⁷ and proclaims that a brāhmaṇa who enters a Bauddha temple even in a great calamity cannot get rid of the sin by hundreds of expiations, since the Bauddhas are heretics and revilers of his Veda. The first part speaks of Vaiṣṇavāgamas (37, 1) and Pañcarātra procedure (53. 9). The Sm. C. quotes many verses from the extant Nāradīya on Ekādaśī and the story of Mohinī. One characteristic passage may be quoted here.¹⁴¹⁹ Rukmāṅgada proclaimed that any person more than eight years of age and below 80 years who would eat food on the day of Viṣṇu in his kingdom would be liable to corporal punishment, fine or banishment. Aparārka also (p. 205) quotes two verses about fast on Ekādaśī. The above circumstances lead to the conclusion that the present Nāradīya was compiled between 700 and 1000 A. D. - [Previous: v7.c90.200](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c90.200) - [Next: v7.c90.202](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c90.202) - [Up: v7.c90](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c90) ## Linked texts (3) - [Agnipurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.agni.272.8) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Nāradapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.narada.1.9.10) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Matsyapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.53.23) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c90.201](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c90.201) · Pramāṇa