History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.216

v7.c90.216

*Bhaviṣyapurāṇa*—Accounts of the contents of the Bhaviṣya in Matsya 53 30-31, Agni 272 12 and Nāradīya I 100 do not tally with the printed Bhaviṣya (Venk ed). It is divided into four *parvans* viz Brāhma, Madhyama, Pratisarga and Uttara. It is only the Brāhmaparva that can claim an early date The Pratisarga-parva is a modern fabrication containing stories of Adam and Eve, Pṛthvīrāja, and Saṁyogitā, the mlecchas of Dehalī, Rāmānuja, Kabīr, Naraśrī (Narsī?), Nānak, Caitanya, Nityānanda, Raidās, Madhvācārya, Bhaṭṭoji &c. The Bhaviṣyottara is discarded by Ballālasena as unauthoritative, though it was popular in his day (vide. p 869 above). Aparārka quotes 160 verses from Bhaviṣyottara on dānas of various kinds. The Sm. C. (I p. 203) quotes a single verse from the same. Hence the Bhaviṣyottara cannot be later than 1000 A D The Kalpataru quotes hundreds of verses from Bhaviṣya on vratas and many verses in other kāṇḍas, e. g. 55 in brahmacāri, 110 on niyata-kāla, 101 on gṛhastha, 100 on rājadharma, 15 on śrāddha. The Mit. quotes¹⁴²⁵ a single verse from Bhaviṣya about donating a golden image of a snake when a man is bitten by a snake. Aparārka quotes about 125 verses from Bhaviṣya, of which about 90 relate to prāyaścittas.