The Purana Index v1.c3.s3.9
The Purāṇa Index v1.c3.s3.9
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v1.c3.s3.9
According to astronomical data furnished by this Purana it may be placed at a period between B C. 204 and A.D 44. In as much as almost verbatim quotations from the Upanishads are made in this Purana, we would not be far wrong in assigning this Purana to the epoch of the early Upanishads From the 5th century B C the Purana was enlarged, and this went on growing till 500 A.D. We therefore conclude that most of the portions were reduced in writing about the 4th and 5th centuries before Christ and the other portions were added now and then until it reached its present form somewhere between 350 B C. and 500 A.D.