History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v7.c99.242

v7.c99.242

Ballālasena, king of Bengal, a. of 'Adbhutasāgara', 'Dānasāgara' and also three other works not yet recovered (vide Purāṇas, Upapurāṇas) 867 and 870, discarded Devīpurāṇa 869, Aniruddhabhaṭṭa was his guru 870n, composed Vratasāgara, Pratiṣṭhāsāgara and Ācārasāgara before Dānasāgara 870n, evinces in remarks on Purāṇas in Dānasāgara a bold critical faculty rare in medieval Sanskrit writers, 867, genealogy of, 870n, names numerous authorities and eight Upapurāṇas 867, states that Bhāgavata, Brahmāṇḍa and Nāradīya contained nothing on Dāna, 868,