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subsequently the Pur膩峁嘺 assumed its extant form. This process of
development may roughly have spread over about three countries from
AD 700 or 800 to AD 1000 AD to 1100.51 R.C. Hazra 52 proclaims that the
extant AP is an apocryphal work of the ninth century AD, which attained
great popularity along with the spread of Tantricism. Pargiter 53 holds that
the AP was written sometime after AD 900. The genuine AP had to save it
self from extinction under a different title namely Vahni Pur膩na wrongly
regarded as an upapur膩峁嘺 by modern scholars. True to its encyclopaedic
nature and shape, the present extant AP consists of an amzingly large
number of subject ranging from mythology, religion, philosophy,
cosmogony, polity, sociology, poetics, history, geography, medicine,
military science, phonetics, grammar, art and lexicography.54
The AP was edited by Rajendra Lal Mitra, and was published in
Calcutta in Bibliolitheca India Series, in 1876-80. An English translation of
the AP by M N. Dutt was done in 1903-04. The Sanskrit text of the AP was
edited by Acharya Baladeva Upadhyaya in 1966. The Hindi text of the AP
was translated by Sri Ram Sharma Acharya in 1973. A critical edition of
the AP was published by Anand膩艣rama series, Poona, 1900. It was edited
by Hari Narain Apte. It is also noteworthy to mention that a handwritten
manuscript of the AP, named Vahni-Pur膩峁嘺 was discovered by R.C.
Hazra. He considers the Vahni Pur膩峁嘺 as the genuine Agni Pur膩峁嘺. Agni
Pur膩峁嘺sya Vi峁�ay膩nukrama峁噄 by Ramshankar Bhattacharya, are some of