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Among the Northern Texts, Maṇḍana seems certainly to
have utilised the Viṣṇudharmottaram¹⁸, in the first instance.
This is, traditionally, said to be a part of the Garuḍa-Purāṇam—
more properly the uttara-bhāga of the Garuḍa-Purāṇam¹⁹.
According to another opinion²⁰, VP. belongs to the second part
of the Viṣṇu-Purāṇam.
"The Viṣṇudharmottara is occasionally given out as a part
of a Purāṇa, namely the Garuḍa-Purāṇa, but generally it is counted
an independent Upa-Purāṇa. It is repeatedly quoted by Alberuni
as the 'Viṣṇudharma'. It is a Kashmiri Vaiṣṇava book of ency-
clopœdic character in three sections. Section I deals with the
usual themes of the Purāṇas···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···'Paitāmaha-Siddhānta'
as this is an extract from the Brahma-sphuṭa-siddhānta written by
18. M. Winternitz : A History of Indian Literature. Vol I. (Cal.
univ., 1927) p. 580.
Śrīviṣṇudharmottaram, or, Viṣṇudharmottara-mahāpurāṇam was edited
by Paṇḍitas Madhusūdana and Mādhavaprasāda Śarmans from a ms.,
obtained by Mm. Sudhākara Dvivedin and published (from Śrīveṅkaṭeśvara
Press, Bombay) in Saṃvat 1969, 1834 Śaka (A. C. 1911-12).
See for Transl. of chapters 2, 27, 35-43, Dr. Stella Kramrisch : The
Viṣṇudharmottaram (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 : Viṣṇudharmottara (III), 41. JAOS., LII., 1932 ;
Ditto. : Transl. Viṣṇudharmottara. Chapt. 43, in Asutosh Commemoration Vol.
(Patna Univ.) Ed. by J. N. Samaddar.
See, also, Haridas Mitra : Sadāśiva 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. Śrīveṅkaṭeśvara Pr.