Devta Murtiprakaranam tatha Rupmandanam

Author(s): Upendramohan Sankhyatirtha
Publisher: Metropolitan Printing and Publishing House Limited

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Among the Northern Texts, Mandana seems certainly to have utilised the Visnudharmottaram18, in the first instance. This is, traditionally, said to be a part of the Garuda-Puranammore properly the uttara-bhaga of the Garuḍa-Puranam1o. According to another opinion20, VP. belongs to the second part of the Visnu-Purānam.
"The Visnudharmottara is occasionally given out as a part of a Purana, namely the Garuda-Purana, but generally it is counted an independent Upa-Purana. It is repeatedly quoted by Alberuni as the 'Visnudharma'. It is a Kashmiri Vaiṣṇava book of encyclopoædic character in three sections. Section I deals with the usual themes of the Puranas Section II deals with law and politics, as well as with medicine, the science of war, astronomy and astrology. There is in it a prose section... Paitamaha-Siddhanta' as this is an extract from the Brahma-sphuṭa-siddhanta written by
18. M. Winternitz : A History of Indian Literature. Vol I. (Cal. univ., 1927) p. 580.
ms.,
Śriviṣṇudharmottaram, or, Viṣṇudharmottara-mahāpurāṇam was edited by Panditas Madhusudana and Madhavaprasada Sarmans from a obtained by Mm. Sudhakara Dvivedin and published (from Śrivenkatesvara Press, Bombay) in Samvat 1969, 1834 Śaka (A. C. 1911-12).
See for Transl. of chapters 2, 27, 35-43, Dr. Stella Kramrisch: The Visnudharmottaram (Part III), A Treatise on Indian Painting. Journal of Letters, Vol. XI. (Univ. Cal, 1924), and The Calcutta Review, Feb., 1924, P. 331 ff.
A. K. Coomaraswamy: Visnudharmottara (III), 41. JAOS., LII., 1932; Ditto. Transl. Visnudharmottara. Chapt. 43, in Asutosh Commemoration Vol. (Patna Univ.) Ed. by J. N. Camaddar.
See, also, Haridas Mitra: Sadasiva Worship in Early Bengal, J. & P., A. S. B., (N. S.) Vol. XXIX. 1933, No. 1. Appendix II. Note 2.
19. M. Winternitz: Geschichte der indischen Literatur, Band I, (German Ed.) 480. 188a.
See Burnell: Classified Index of Skt. Mss. in the palace at Tanjore. 20. See Introduction in Skt. to the Ed. of Text, Śrivenkatesvara Pr.