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273 taccintacaritena tavakamahamayavimudhatmana samsararnavadurnivaralaharijalesu momucyata | vidyorjjatsadasadvivekarahitenedam maya varnitam tenanena madarpitena bhagavan prinatu narayanah || Colophon. iti siddhantapancananakrtah padarthatattvavalokah samaptah | siromanikrtapadarthakhandanasya vyakhya | faqe: 1 No. 1266. kurmmapuranapurvvabhagah | ? Substance, country-made yellow paper, 14 x 10 inches. Folia, 135. Lines, 23 on a page. Extent, 3,121 slokas. Character, Bengali. Date, Place of deposit, Srirampur College. Appearance, fresh. Verse. Incorrect. Kurma Purana, Purva-bhaga. The Kurma is the fifteenth of the eighteen great Puranas attributed to Vyasa and the MS. under notice comprises only the first half of that work. The following is Professor Wilson's account of this Purana: 66 That in which Janardana, in the form of a tortoise, in the regions under the earth, explained the objects of life-duty, wealth, pleasure, and liberation-in communication with Indradyumna and the R'ishis in the proximity of Sakra, which refers to the Lakshmi Kalpa, and contains seventeen thousand stanzas, is the Kurma Purana." In the first chapter of the Kurma Purana, it gives an account of itself, which does not exactly agree with this description. Suta, who is repeating the narration, is made to say to the R'ishis: "This most excellent Kaurma Purana is the fifteenth. Samhitas are fourfold, from the variety of the collections. The Brahmi, Bhagavati, Sauri, and Vaishnavi are well known as the four Samhitas which confer virtue, wealth, pleasure, and liberation. This is the Brahmi Samhita conformable to the four Vedas; in which there are six thousand slokas; and, by it, the importance of the four objects of life, O great sages, holy knowledge and Parameswara is known." There is an irreconcilable difference in this specification of the number of stanzas and that given above. It is not very clear what is meant by a Samhita, as here used. A Samhita, so observed above (p. XIX.), is something different from a Purana. It may be an assemblage of prayers and legends, extracted, professedly, from a Purana, but is not, usually, applicable to the origi- 21