Essay name: Purana Bulletin
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Affiliation: University of Kerala / Faculty of Oriental Studies
The "Purana Bulletin" is an academic journal published in India. The journal focuses on the study of Puranas, which are a genre of ancient Indian literature encompassing mythological stories, traditions, and philosophical teachings. They represent Hindu scriptures in Sanskrit and cover a wide range of subjects.
Purana, Volume 9, Part 2 (1967)
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[Vol. IX., No. 2
(3) Adhy膩tma R膩m膩ya峁嘺, from 10. 4. 67 to 18. 4. 67 in
Janakpura temple of Ramnagar. The discourses on it
were given by post-Acharya Pt. Ramalaksmanacharya
of Varanasi.
Besides, the p膩r膩ya峁嘺 and the katha of the R膩macarita-
Manasa of Gosv膩m墨 Tulas墨d膩sa was arranged as usual from
11. 5. 67 to 19. 5. 67 in the K膩l墨 temple at Chakia, a place about
20 miles from Ramnagar, where the gathering was in thousands.
At the close of the p膩r膩ya峁嘺 and the katha the Udyapana
ceremony was duly performed and the prasada was distributed.
MEETING OF THE PURANA-COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Pur膩峁嘺-Committee of the All-India
Kashiraj Trust was held in the Ramnagar Fort on Dec. 30, 31,
1966, under the Chairmanship of His Highness Dr. Vibhuti
Narain Singh. It was attended by Dr. R. K. Sharma, Education
Ministry, Govt. of India, and Dr. S. N. Sastri, the former
Vice-Chancellor of the Varanaseya Sanskrit University. Pt.
Visvanatha Sastri Datar and Pt. Harirama Sukla, the two
Sanskrit scholars of Varanasi, were also invited.
Certain principles of constituting the text of the V膩mana
Pur膩峁嘺 and the question of its extent were discussed. The
Editor, Sri Anand Swarup Gupta, explained these principles
and placed before the scholars some constituted readings as
way of illustrations. Some of the readings were discussed. As
regards the extent of the V膩mana Purana text Dr. S. N. Sastri
and the two learned Pandits were of opinion that its extent
should be the same as that of the text of the Venkatesvara
printed edition, because according to the N膩rad墨ya Pur膩峁嘺 the
extent of the Purva-bhaga of the V膩mana Pur膩峁嘺 text (which
only is now available) as represented by the vulgate is 6,000
艣lokas. They did not favour the omission of the 27 Adhy膩yas
of the Saro-m膩h膩tmya which are all omitted in the Bengali and
the South Indian MSS, from the main text of the V膩mana
Pur膩na. Dr. R. K. Sharma, however, was of opinion that the
Manuscript evidence should also be taken into consideration.
We are thankful to these scholars for their co-operation
and useful discussions.
