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Garuda Purana

This is another source of Madhva that has a similar problem.

Even here, Banerji says we have the same difficulty36:

``The contents of the extant Garuda do not tally with those mentioned in the Matsya, Skanda, and Agni [Puranas]. Not a single one of the many verses attributed to the Garuda by early writers like Madhvacarya, Devanabhatta, Hemadri, Madhavacarya, Sulapani, etc., is found in the present version. These reasons warrant the assumption that there was an earlier version of the Garuda.''

Similar problems exist with other Puranas also--refer Banerji. Mesquita uses just one published version of each text he refers to, which would cause problems even in other cases than Madhva's quotes, because the published texts do vary significantly from one another.



Shrisha Rao 2003-04-18