History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c90.94

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There is a large mass of Literature dealing with several questions relating to Purāṇas. For those who desire to make a close study of them and wish to be acquainted with the controversies relating to Purāṇas, some of the more important works and papers on the Purāṇas may be mentioned here: H. H. Wilson's Introduction to the English tr. of the Viṣṇupurāṇa, vol. 1. (1864); F. E. Pargiter's 'Purāṇa texts of the dynasties of the Kali age' (1913), 'Ancient Indian genealogies' in Sir R. G. Bhandarkar Presentation volume pp. 107-113, 'Ancient Indian Historical Tradition' (Oxford, 1922); W. Kirfel's 'das Purāṇa Pañcalakṣaṇa' (Bonn, 1927), 'die Cosmographie der Inder' (1920), 'Bharatavarṣa' (Stuttgart, 1931); Vries on 'Purāṇa studies' in Pavry commemoration vol. pp 482-487 (applies Kirfel's method to the subject of śrāddha in the Brahmāṇḍa, Harivaṁśa, Matsya, Padma and Vāyu); Haraprasad Shastri's descriptive cat. of Mss. at the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. V. Preface pp. LXXIII-CCXXV and his paper on 'Mahā-purāṇas" in J. B. O. R. S vol. XV. p. 323-340; Prof. B. C. Majumdar's paper in Sir Asutosh Mookerji Silver Jubilee vol. III, Orientalia, part 2 pp. 9-30; Dr. A. Banerji Śastri's paper on ‘Ancient Indian Historical Tradition’ in J. B. O. R. S. vol. XIII. pp. 62–79 (supplies a useful corrective to many sweeping assertions of such scholars as Macdonell, Pargiter and others); Cambridge History of India, vol. I. pp. 296–318; Winternitz's ‘History of Indian Literature,’ English Tr. vol I. pp. 296–318; Prof. H. C. Hazra's ‘Studies in the Purāṇic Records of Hindu rites and customs’ (Dacca 1940), papers on ‘Purāṇas in the History of smṛti’ in ‘Indian Culture,’ vol. I. pp. 587–614, ‘Mahāpurāṇas’ in Dacca University Studies’ vol. II. pp. 62–69; ‘Smṛti chapters in Purāṇas (I. H. Q. vol. XI pp. 108–130), ‘Pre-Purāṇic Hindu Society before 200 A.D.’ (I. H. Q. vol. XV. pp. 403–431), ‘Purāṇic rites and customs influenced by the economic and social views of the sacerdotal class’ (in Dacca University Studies’ vol. XII. pp 91–101), ‘Influence of Tantra on Smṛtinibandhas’ (in A. B. O R I. vol XV. pp. 220–235 and vol XVI pp. 202–211), ‘the Upapurāṇas’ (in A. B. O R. I. vol. XXI. pp. 38–62); ‘Purāṇa Literature as known to Ballālasena’ (in the J O. R, Madras, vol. XII. pp. 129–146), ‘Some Minor Purāṇas’ in A. B. O R. I. vol. XIX. pp. 69–79, ‘the Aśvamedha, the common source of origin of the Purāṇa Pañcalakṣaṇa and the Mahābhārata’ A. B O. R. I. vol. 36 (1955 pp. 190–203); ‘Some lost Upapurāṇas’ in J. A. S., Calcutta, vol. 20 pp. 15–38; and many other papers on individual Purāṇas specified at the end of this part, Das-Gupta's Indian Philosophy, vol. III. pp 496–511 on ‘Philosophical speculations of some Purāṇas’; Dr. D. R Patil's paper on ‘Gupta Inscriptions and Purāṇic tradition’ (in Bulletin of D. C. R. I., vol. II. pp 2–58, comparing passages from Gupta Inscriptions and Purāṇas); Prof. V. R. Ramchandra Dikshitar's ‘The Purāṇas, a study’ (in I. H. Q vol. VIII. pp. 717–67) and ‘Purāṇa Index’ in three volumes; Dr. A. D. Pusalkar's paper in ‘Progress of Indic Studies’ (1917–1942) in Silver Jubilee Volume of BORI. pp. 139–152 and ‘Studies in Epics and Purāṇas of India’ (B. V. Bombay. 1953); Prof. D R. Mankad's¹³⁷⁵ papers on ‘Yugas’ (in P. O.