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 5.5 - The lost Adipurana (study)
This work [adipurana], which was also called Adya-purana, Sanatkumara, Sanatkumara, Sanatkumariya, Sanatkumarokta and Sanatkumaraprokta, was quite distinct from the present Adi-purana published from Calcutta (with a Bengali translation) by Navina-krsna Laha in 1891 and from Bombay by the Venkatesvara Press in Saka 1829 and preserved in Manuscripts in all parts of India. It occupied a very exalted position among the Upapuranas and was a Vaisnava work composed between 500 and 700 A.D. and probably during the sixth century. For full information about this work see under 'Adi-purana' in Chapter IV above. 5 See p. 100 above. Also Epigraphia Indica, IX; p. 279.