History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.38

v7.c90.38

Before proceeding further, it is necessary to say here something about the Yuga-purāṇa, a part of the Gārgī-Saṁhitā, and one of the earliest extant works bearing the title Purāṇas. Kern in his Introduction to the Bṛhatsaṁhitā (pp. 32-40) brought this rare Purāṇa containing valuable historical data to the notice of scholars from a fragmentary ms Later on K. P. Jayaswal1348a published a text of the purely historical material of the Yugapurāṇa in 115 half lines in Anuṣṭubh metre based on the fragment that Kern had got and two more mss. that were secured by him and added a translation and notes. Later on Jayaswal obtained a copy made by Prof Levi from a ms. (in Bengali script) in the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris and published in JBORS. (vol. XV pp 129-133) a table comparing the readings of that ms. with the text he published in JBORS. vol. XIV. Prof. K. H. Dhruva contributed a paper on the text of the Yugapurāṇa to the JBORS vol. XVI. pp 18-66, wherein he altered the proper names and gave free scope to his conjectures and inferences with the result that succeeding scholars have not attached any weight to his emendations and remarks. Prof. D. K. Mankad1348b published a monograph in which he gave the text of the historical portion based on the mss. utilized by Jayaswal and a fresh ms. that he obtained in Saurāstra, corrects some of the readings accepted by Jayaswal and considerably differs from some of Jayaswal's interpretations and added a few notes.