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SOME LOST SAURA AND VAISNAVA UPAPURANAS 351 2. THE ANGIRASA-UPAPURANA The title of this work is found included in none of the lists of eighteen Upapuranas except that given in the Ekamra-purana, nor does any comparatively early Smrti-writer, except Gopala-bhatta, draw upon or refer to it in his work. The only verse," which Gopala-bhatta quotes from it in his Haribhakti-vilasa, p. 677, says that if, being afraid of rebirths, any one pronounces the name 'Vasudeva', he is sure to become free from these and attain the region of Visnu. The title of this work and the quoted verse mentioned above indicate that this Upapurana was narrated by the sage Angiras and that it dealt primarily with the praise of Visnu-Vasudeva. most Gopala-bhatta's quotation from this Upapurana and the mention of its title in the Ekamra-purana* (which is drawn upon by Gadadhara in his Kalasara and mentioned in the Uttara-khanda of the Bengal Siva-purana) show that it was written earlier than 1000 A.D., probably in Western Bengal or Orissa. But as it is not mentioned in any other list of eighteen Upapuranas, and as none of the comparatively early Nibandha-writers is found to draw upon or refer to this work, it must have been composed at a date not much earlier than 900 A.D.