पुराणनिरीक्षण. original Purana was rewritten in verse. while the original chronology gave place to the system of Kalpas, and the history subsequent to the great war was thrown into pro- phetic form. This second version was the common source of the extant Puranas. The historical statements common to the विष्णु, मात्स्य, वायु and भागवत end with the troubled times that followed the fall of the Gupta Empire, and the origin of a plurality of पुराण's may therefore be referred to about the 6th century A. D., though, ofcourse, some of ihe existing works, may have been recast or added to later than this. P.P/.72 – 73. ३६ मि. विल्सन यांच्या मतांपेक्षां मि. जॅक्सन यांची पुराणांच्या प्राचीन- वाविषयींची मतें बरींच सुधारलेली आहेत हैं यावरून लक्षांत येण्यासा- रखेंच आहे; याही मतांत कशी सुधारणा झाली पाहिजे हे आमच्या वरील विवेचनावरून कळून येईलच.
