The Purana Index v1.c3.s4.7

v1.c3.s4.7

According to the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa the Lalitā cult was the most efficacious. The principal centres of Śakti worship as referred to in this Purāṇa are Śrīnagar, perhaps in the present Kashmir and Kāñcī in South India. From the foregoing study the conclusion is inevitable that the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa can come under the category of some of the oldest Purāṇas. As the major portions of the Purāṇa are indebted to the Vāyu Purāṇa, we may safely venture the guess that the Brahmāṇḍa may be the immediate successor to the Vāyu Purāṇa, and the date for the Brahmāṇḍa would almost be the same as that for Vāyu. In other words, the composition of this Purāṇa may be roughly assigned to about the 4th century B.C. though we cannot be positive that the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa in its present form came into existence even then.