History of Hindu Mathematics: A Source Book v1.c7.s10.45

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⁵ *Agni-Purâṇa*, Baṅgabâsî ed., Calcutta (1314 B.S.), chs. 122-23, 131, 140, 141, 328-335. According to Pargiter, probably the greatest Puranic scholar of modern times, "the *purâṇas* cannot be later than the earliest centuries of the Christian era." (*JRAS*, 1912, pp. 254-55). The *Agni-Purâṇa* is admitted by all scholars to be the earliest of the *Purâṇas*.