[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [The Purana Index](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951) › v1.c3.s5.6 # The Purana Index v1.c3.s5.6 The Purāṇa Index v1.c3.s5.6 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s5.6) According to Pargiter "there is an apparent indication that a compilation was begun in the later part of the second century in the Āndhra king, Yajñaśrī's reign, for, five manuscripts of the Matsya Purāṇa speak of him as reigning in his ninth or tenth year". As against this theory two objections can be raised. One is that the reading in one manuscript militates against another. Even granting for the sake of argument, the reading is correct, what answer have we to give for the continuance of the list to the very end of the Āndhra dynasty? If we have to take as Pargiter would have it, the Purāṇic list must come to an end with Yajñaśrī; but it is not so. The kings who succeeded Yajñaśrī are correctly and precisely mentioned. It appears more logical and more reasonable that in that century the dynastic portion was brought up-to-date, for, other portions of the Purāṇa bear an air of antiquity about them. On this account we can very well assign to this Purāṇa a place among the oldest of the Purāṇas. If by the term 'oldest' is meant only second century A.D., we are not only prepared to grant it but also to go further back by three or four centuries (See, for details, the Matsya Purāṇa, a study, published by the University of Madras, 1935). - [Previous: v1.c3.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s5.5) - [Next: v1.c3.s6.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s6.1) - [Up: v1.c3.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dikshitar-1951.v1.c3.s5.6) · Pramāṇa