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The Age of the Purāṇas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 March 2011

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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1914

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page 1021 note 2 Smith, Vincent, Early History of India, p. 23.Google Scholar

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page 1025 note 1 This passage differs from p. 4, 1. 6, and p. 10. 1. 5, in giving the length of the reign, and so is prophetic.

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