Obscure Religious Cults as Background of Bengali Literature c28.3

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¹ Edited by Mr. N. N. Vasu for the first time and published from the Sāhitya Pariṣat and then by Mr. Charu Chandra Banerjee from the Vasumati Office. The name *Śūnya-purāṇa* was used for the book for the first time by the editor Mr. N. N Vasu and the naming seems to be arbitrary, for no such name of the book is found in any manuscript (the original manuscript of Mr. Vasu is not, however, available to the public). In one place of the text the book is called *Āgama-purāṇa*, and it is also traditionally called the *Hākanda-purāṇa*. MM. H. P. Śāstrī named it as *Rāmāi Paṇḍiter Paddhati*. However, as the book became widely known by the name of *Śūnya-purāṇa* the name was retained in the second edition by Mr. Banerjee.