Studies in the Upapuranas
by R. C. Hazra | 1958 | 320,504 words
This book studies the Upapuranas: a vast category of (often Sanskrit) literature representing significant historical, religious, and cultural insights of the ancient Indian civilization. These Upa-Purana texts provide rich information, especially on Hinduism covering theology, mythology, rituals, and dynastic genealogies....
Chapter 5.13 - The Laghubhagavata-purana (study)
9. THE LAGHU-BHAGAVATA-PURANA It is only the Ekamra-purana which includes the name of this work in its list of Upapuranas. In his Haribhakti-vilasa (pp. 657, 660, 667, 685) Gopala-bhatta quotes from this work six verses on the praise of pronouncing the name of Govinda (or Hari). So, this work must have been written in Western Bengal or Orissa not later than 1000 A.D. but most probably not before 800 A.D. Its title as well as the quoted verses shows that it was a work of the Vaisnavas. In
the verse from it in Haribhakti-vilasa, p. 685 the word 'nrpa' has been used in the Vocative Case. So, in this Upapurana somebody, whose name is unknown to us, spoke to a king (whose name also we do not know) on the benefits of pronouncing the name of Hari.