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CHAPTER IV SOME LOST UPAPUR膧峁咥S OF NON-SECTARIAN OR UNKNOWN ORIGIN Besides the lost Upapur膩峁嘺s dealt with in the immediate- ly preceding Chapter and in Chap. V of Vol. I of the present work, there were many others, about which our information is in most cases so meagre that we are in absolute darkness about the sects to which these works originally belonged. Most of them are now known to us only by name; and as regards the religious views of those very few Upapur膩峁嘺s about which we can gather some information from external sources and quotations, our knowledge is no better than in the case of the rest. It can hardly be denied that clash of religious interest and sectarian rivalry in the mediaeval period of Indian history were responsible for the composition of many more Upapur膩峁嘺s than we know of at present. The few works, about which we have been able to gather some information, are the following. 1. The Aditya-pur膩峁嘺. This is one of the earliest and most popular Upapur膩峁嘺s. But unfortunately its name does not occur in any of the lists of eighteen Upapur膩峁嘺s except those contained in three comparatively late works, viz., the Devi-bh膩gavata, the Vindhya-m膩h膩tmya, and the B峁沨addharma-p. The list of Upapur膩峁嘺s," which Raghunandana derived from the 'Kaurma' (i.e. K奴rma-p.), contains the name of a 'Bh膩ska- rahvaya' Upapur膩峁嘺. According to K膩艣墨r膩ma V膩caspati and also perhaps Raghunandana himself, this 'Bh膩skar膩- hvaya' Upapur膩峁嘺 is the same as the Aditya-p. We do not 1 For this list see Vol. I, pp. 4-5. 2 * See K膩艣墨r膩ma V膩caspati's com. on the Malam膩sa-tattva (ed. Candicara峁嘺 Sm峁泃i-
bh奴峁�a峁嘺), p. 213鈥攂h膩skar膩hvayam 膩ditya-pur膩峁嘺m.