History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.1814.2

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differences as to names of 18 P. and great differences as to their extent and contents 830 , divided into three groups, sāttvika, rājasa and tāmasa and their main objects 815, 839 , do contain ancient legends and traditions, but very much tampered with 838 ; early Sanskrit writers like Śabara, Bāṇa, Kumārila, Śaṅkarācārya and others show that in their times P. existed, the contents of which were just like those of the extant P. 821-26 : emphasize that for the proper understanding of the Veda knowledge of Itihāsa and P. essential 914 ; even early Purāṇas like Matsya were influenced by black magic rites 1114 : examples of identical chapters and verses in several purāṇas 803, 841, 929, 1522n, 1523n 2479; existence of some P containing accounts of creation, dissolution and Smṛti material before 500 B. C. indicated by Āp. Dh. S. 818 ; explain at great length creation and dissolution of the elements about which Upaniṣads drop brief hints 914 : extant P. contain far more topics than the five topics of creation etc. and some P. barely touch the five and exhaustively deal with entirely different topics 841 , extent of all P together said to be originally four lakhs of Ślokas acc to Matsya and Padma 829n, extent of P was acc to Bhaviṣya 12000 verses but later Skanda was inflated to one lakh verses and Bhaviṣya to 50,000 verses, 833;