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( 6 ) 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.