Kalyana Kalpataru June 1950

which are strictly the domain of the Smrtis and Dharmagastras were incorporated into the Puraeas not later than the middle of the fourth century A. D. Liberties have all along been taken with the texts of the Puranas and especially the ambition of the later compilers was to make the Puranas all comprehensive and encyclopaedic like the Mahabharata and every successive genertion tried to mak [...] The use of the word "Puraeta" in singular in the passages of the Atharvaveda identity of language in the dynastic lists in the Puranas and the traditional account of there being a single Purav.a at the beginning has led Jackson and others to believe that there was only one Pura in the beg inningl. [...] At the beginning of the Indic studies in the last decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century the Puranas were regarded as of no historical value on account of the confused coglomeration of legendary and historical events in the Puranas as also their peculiar ideas of ages". [...] So all the rites of cremation were performed; the prescribed bathing the oblation of sesamum seeds the ceremony of the ten balls of rice which Bharata performed after due study of the Vedas the Pur&has and the Code or Ritual. [...] 111 THE CHARACTER OF HINDU CULTURE—II 603 dear to the manes this is the injunction of the 6rntii—saying this He made lumps of the ground pulse of the medicinal fruit Ingudi and pouring honey over them offered the same to the departed King.