History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.267

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*Viṣṇudharmottara* (U. pub. by Venk. Press). It is a huge work and has been dealt with above (pp. 876-878). In spite of its huge size it is not quoted by the Kalpataru on vrata, tīrtha, brahmacāri, gṛhastha, rājadharma, mokṣa and other kāṇḍas. Aparārka quotes only 30 verses from it, of which 24 are on dāna: the Smṛticandrikā quotes about 30 in all and that Dānasāgara quotes profusely from it on dāna. It cannot be earlier than 600 A. D., and cannot be placed later than the 10th century, though parts of it may be later additions. Chapters 52–65 of the first section are called Śaṅkaragītā. The Kālikā Purāṇa expressly refers (in chap. 91 70 and 92. 2) to the Viṣṇudharmottara as having been concerned with Rājanīti and Sadācāra.