Studies in the Upapuranas
by R. C. Hazra | 1958 | 320,504 words
This book studies the Upapuranas: a vast category of (often Sanskrit) literature representing significant historical, religious, and cultural insights of the ancient Indian civilization. These Upa-Purana texts provide rich information, especially on Hinduism covering theology, mythology, rituals, and dynastic genealogies....
Chapter 5.3 - The Sauradharmottara-purana (study)
This work [sauradharmottara-purana] also, like the Sauradharma mentioned above, should be regarded as an Upapurana, although no writer has called it so. It has been drawn upon in Gopala-bhatta's Haribhakti-vilasa (pp. 776, 808), Raghunandana's Smrti-tattva (II, p. 50), Candesvara's Tithi-nirnaya (folios 12 a, 13 a, 13 b), Hemadri's Caturvarga-cintamani (III. ii, p. 249) and Jimutavahana's Kalaviveka (pp. 432-3, 443, 444, 447). So, it must have been written not later than 900 A. D. The Sauradharmottara does not seem to have been rich in Smrti materials. Only a few verses have been quoted from it in the Smrti works, and all these verses relate to Ekadasi-upavasa.