Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.564

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8) Purāṇas. Vyāsa compiled a Purāṇa saṃhitā using speeches, appendices, poems and Kalpanirṇayas and taught it to Romaharṣaṇa alias Sūta. Sūta had six disciples named Sumati, Agnivarcas, Mitrāyus, Śāṃśapāyana, Akṛtavraṇa, and Sāvarṇi. Akṛtavraṇa, Sāvarṇi and Śāṃśapāyana born of Kaśyapagotra have themselves made Purāṇasaṃhitās. There is another saṃhitā composed by Romaharṣaṇa based on the saṃhitās made by the above three.