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 12, Part 1 (1970)
175 (of 240)
External source: Shodhganga (Repository of Indian theses)
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Jan., 1970] DOES THE V膧MANA-PURANA MENTION TULASI 151
That is, the Kashmirian MSS have an additional line as
' 啶む啶侧じ啷嵿く啶距じ啷嵿い啷� 啶す啶距ぐ啶距 啶啷嵿啶班啶た啶班啶掂た啶多啶粪い啶� [tulasy膩stu mah膩r膩ja ma帽jar墨bhirvi艣e峁ta岣� ] '. But this additional line by its very
grammatical construction whicn does not fit in with the text which
precedes and follows (艢ls. 14 and 15) seems to be spurious. More-
over, the address by Prahlada to Bali as 'H' in the additional
line is also not used by him in any other place of this or the previous
chapter. Prahlada was elder and superior to his grandson Bali
who also treats Prahlada as his elder and superior. Prahlada, there-
fore, addresses Bali as '' (67.2/d, 68d: 68. 18b. 46b, 52b, 55c),
鈥�啶︵啶む啶� [daitya] 鈥� (67.45c ; 68.39a), '啶︵ぞ啶ㄠさ [诲腻苍补惫补] ' (68,23b), '啶呧じ啷佮ぐ [asura] ' (68.44d), '啶︵啶む啶ざ啶距ぐ啷嵿う啷傕げ [诲补颈迟测补艣腻谤诲奴濒补] '
(67.44a), '啶︵ぞ啶ㄠさ啶多ぞ啶班啶︵啶� [诲腻苍补惫补艣膩rd奴la] ' (67.27a; 43c), '啶す啶距じ啷佮ぐ [尘补丑腻蝉耻谤补] ' (67.61d; 68.10b) and '啶啶む啶班 [putraka] '
(67.69d). So the very address 'HER' by Prahlada to Bali shows the
spuriousness of this additional line, what to say of its grammatical
construction. It seems that this line was copied by some Kashmirian
reader from some other source in his manuscript and later on it was
incorporated into the body of the text in the Kashmirian manus-
cripts.
We can, therefore, say that the Vamana Pur膩峁嘺 does not
mention tulasi, or at least the text containing the mention of tulasi and
K峁涐梗峁嘺-tulasi in Raghunanandana's Sm峁泃i-tattva and also the text in
the additional line of the Kashmirian MSS is either spurious or
unsupported and uncorroborated, and so does not affect in any way
the assumption of an early date for the Vamana-Pur膩峁嘺.
-A. S. Gupta
