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(?)鈥擜 verse is found ascribed to a 'Madhavi-purana' in Bhairava's Acara-nirnaya-bhaskara-samgraha, which is ** Asiatic Society (Calcutta) Manuscript No. G 5946, fol. 71 bmadhavi-purane- 'ratris tu nayet (? ratri-suktam japet) smrtva etc.'

later than the Tantra-sara. As in no other work known to us there is any reference to or quotation from the 'Madhavipurana', we do not know whether there was at all any Upapurana bearing this title. It is highly probable that the reading 'madhavi-purane' in Bhairava's work is a scribal mistake for 'madhaviye purane' and that the verse, ascribed to the 'Madhavi-purana', was derived from some work of Madhavacarya. This probability gains ground when we see that this verse has been quoted in Madhavacarya's commentary (I. i, p. 441) on the Parasara-smrti with the words "purane 'pi", and that at another place (fol. 1 b) in the Acara-nirnaya-bhaskara-samgraha a verse (brahma-muraris tripurantakari etc.=Vamana-purana 14. 23) has been quoted with the words 'madhaviye purane', evidently to mean that the verse was derived from Madhavacarya's commentary (II. i, pp. 220-221) on the Parasarasmrti, where it has been quoted with the mention of the Vamana-purana as its source. The derivation of Puranic verses from Madhavacarya's works with the words 'madhaviye purane' is not peculiar to Bhairava alone. There are other Nibandha-writers who have used the same words in the cases of some of the Puranic verses derived from Madhavacarya's works. See, for instance, Nilakantha-bhatta's Acaramayukha, p. 107 madhaviye purane- 'yat phalam soma-yagena prapnoti dhanavan dvijah / samyak panca-mahayajnair daridras tad avapnuyat //' It is to be noted that this verse (yat phalam soma-yagena etc.) is found quoted by Madhavacarya in his commentary on the Parasara-smrti (Acara-kanda, Adhyaya I, p. 413) with the words "purane 'pi."