Essay name: Brahma Purana (critical study)
Author:
Surabhi H. Trivedi
Affiliation: Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda / Department of Sanskrit Pali and Prakrit
This is an English study of the Brahmapurana鈥攐ne of the eighteen major Puranas which occupies an important place in the Pauranic literature. This study researches the rich an encyclopaedic material for social, religious, philosophical, mythological, political, geographical and literary study found in the Brahma-Purana.
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Buddhastamivrata (No.3452), Margasirsackadasivrata (No.3453)
and Kartikamahatmya (No. 3453陋) which though not found in the
An. ed. are said to draw its authority from the Br. P.58a
The descriptive catalogue of the Sanskrit mss. in the
Tanjore Maharaja Sartoji's Sarasvati Mahal Library, Tanjore
informs us that the Br. P. was printed at Bombay in 1906; and
at cidambaram with a translation by V.S.Venkatarama Shastri in
1908. Moreover, the Prayagmahatmya, Srimasnamahatmya and
Hastigirimahatmya also form a part of it.
In some mss. the mahatmya of the sacred river Balaja
occurs as the uttarakhanda of the Br. P.
59 The present study does not aim at representing an
exhaustive examination of all the mss., firstly, because the
whole information regarding all the mss. is not at the disposal
of the present writer and moreover it is not necessary also.
But this material shows that a critical edition of the Br. P.
is a highly felt necessity as it would decide whether all these
mahatmyas and other topics belonged to the original Purana or
not.
1 After collecting the information regarding the Br. P.
from various catalogues, let us now see as to what information
could be gathered about the Br.P. from the various nibandha works.
58陋 Haraprasad Shastri, a descriptive catalogue of Sanskrit
manuscripts.
.59
Winternitz, Op. Cit., PP. 533 f.
