History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.268

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*Sāmbapurāṇa* (U. pub. by Venk. Press). Vide H in 'Sāmbapurāṇa through the ages' in JASB vol. 18 (1952) pp. 91–111, 'on Sāmba-purāṇa' a śaiva work in ABORI vol. 36 (1955) pp. 62–84 and 'Studies &c.' vol. I. pp. 32–108. This purāṇa is hardly ever quoted by early digests such as the Kalpataru, Aparārka or Smṛticandrikā. Only four verses from it are quoted by the Dānasāgara. Prof. Hazra's propositions that the Bhaviṣya (pp. 68–82) and Brahmapurāṇa (present) borrow from the Sāmba are not at all acceptable to the present author, particularly in view of his own admission (in 'Studies &c.' vol. I. p. 68) that the present Sāmbapurāṇa consists of different units belonging to different climes and ages. All that can be said positively is that a purāṇa called Sāmba is mentioned by Alberuni in 1030 A. D. (Sachau I p. 130).