The Purana Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age with introduction and notes

6 V. Smith's Histarg p. 266."AGE OF THE COMPILATION OF THE ACCOUNT xiii soon after the middle of the 3rd century 1 in the shape found in the Matsya and that they were extended to the rise of the Gupta kingdom before the year 335 which augmented compilation is what the Vayu and Brahmanda contain and the Visnu and BhAgavata have condensed. [...] It follows then that the Bhavisya must have been in existence in the middle of the 3rd century 2; and it would appear that the Matsya borrowed what the Bhavisya contained before the Gupta era and that the Vayu and Brahmancla borrowed the Bhavisya's augmented account about or soon after the year 330 or 335. [...] Besides the Calcutta edition of the Visnu and the Ganpat edition of the Bhagavata I have collated 10 MSS of the former and 18 of the latter and also the French edition of the Bhagavata so far as its Sanskrit text goes. [...] When the account was revised and brought up to date in the Bhavisya at the Gupta era in the version found now in the Vdyu and Brahmdr)da the periods assigned to the Saka and other mleccha dynasties should have been revised for the furthér period of 60 or 70 years but that was not done for the periods are the same in the two versions. [...] Some compilation seems to have been made of the Andhras at least in the reign of the Andhra king Yajilagri about the end of the second century A. D. (§ 21 note)1; but the first definite compilation is that which brought the ' history ' down from the time of the battle to a little later than the end of the Andhras 2 together with the final portion 3 and was incorporated in the Bhavisya about o